"The future is open. It depends on us."

"Politics, when it is done well, is a service to others, not a means to personal power or enrichment."

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"Freedom is not given; it is won."