Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.