Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realizes the common good of freedom and self-government.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.