"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place."

"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."

"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."