The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
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