The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

(on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it.

The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.