"The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is"

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too"

"We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with as little fuss as you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out".

We've got loud guitars /and big suspicions/ great big guns/ and small ambitions/ and we still argue over who is God 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.