"I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can't do that, then it should not survive."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."

"I have always felt that anyone who wanted an election so much they would use those means did not have the character that I really admired in public life."

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who are brave enough to love know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up in a…"