"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

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

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people."

"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."