Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.