I Do Not Bring Any Professional Knowledge

If You Had To Work In The Environment Of Washington, D.c., As I Do, And Watch Those Men Who Are So Imprisoned And So Confined By Their Eighteenth-century Thought Patterns, You Would Know That If Anybody Is Going To Be Liberated, It's Men Who Must Be Liberated In This Country.

What We Have To Do Is Strike A Balance Between The Idea That Government Should Do Everything And The Idea, The Belief, That Government Ought To Do Nothing. Strike A Balance.

Let There Be No Illusions About The Difficulty Of Forming This Kind Of A National Community. It's Tough, Difficult, Not Easy. But A Spirit Of Harmony Will Survive In America Only If Each Of Us Remembers That We Share A Common Destiny.

The Arts Are Not A Frill. The Arts Are A Response To Our Individuality And Our Nature, And Help To Shape Our Identity. What Is There That Can Transcend Deep Difference And Stubborn Divisions? The Arts. They Have A Wonderful Universality. Art Has The Potential To Unify. It Can Speak In Many Languages Without A Translator. The Arts Do Not Discriminate. The Arts Lift Us Up.

We Believe That The People Are The Source Of All Governmental Power; That The Authority Of The People Is To Be Extended, Not Restricted.