CECIL B. DEMILLE - November 7, 1947
"You may find [Communists] in your factories and in your schools and on your newspapers...One of the biggest victories they could win would be to divert all of our Red-baiting energy toward Hollywood, so you wouldn't see them planting the seeds of chaos in your own backyards."

MORTIMER J. ADLER - October 10, 1952
"In order to affirm the dignity of man and to affirm in addition that man and man alone of all terrestrial beings has this special dignity, one would have to affirm...that all other creatures on earth from stones up to apes have no reason and no freedom..."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER - October 20, 1960
"To return now to the theme of your organization...the central need in all international affairs today is to forge a commonwealth of nations, a United Nations that will steadily strengthen the bonds and build the structure of a true world community that can live in peace with justice."

EDWARD TELLER - December 13, 1961
"There will not be much warning. A missile takes only 20 minutes to get here, if it starts from Russia. It is highly desirable, it is necessary, that to everybody a mass shelter should be available in a walking distance of five minutes. In heavily built-up areas, this is possible."

NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER - May 29, 1964
"I'm a liberal in matters of human concern...but I'm a conservative when it comes to fiscal integrity and when it comes to the use of the free enterprise system to achieve job opportunities for all Americans. I think that is the sound combination."

RONALD REAGAN - October 28, 1966
"I'd like to touch upon human conservation....We have people in California who are the third or fourth generations of their families who are living on public subsistence. This is destructive to the soul of a human being, to his very moral fiber..."

ROBERT F. KENNEDY - January 4, 1968
"Entangled abroad and embattled at home, America searches for answers, not just to specific problems but to the great question, What do we stand for? Where do we want to go? Do we stand for our wealth?...Asked better, perhaps, are we really so wealthy?"

ABBA EBAN - November 14, 1970
"Israel's existence as a sovereign state is...not something to be defended, or to be explained, or to be apologized for. It is something to be proclaimed as an inexorable part of historic reality, and those who plan the future without it are building their concepts on foundations of sand."

RONALD V. DELLUMS - November 12, 1971
"Why is it that us old folks, for the most part, don't engage in war?...Because those of us who have been on the face of this earth long enough, most of us, love life so desperately that we choose not to risk it. But we'll send the children."

BENJAMIN SPOCK - May 3, 1972
"[The Vietnam War] isnt a slightly dirty war. It isn't a slightly immoral war. It's one of the dirtiest wars that's ever been fought and it's been carried out by a consistant policy of brazen lying to the American people by the administration..."

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM - May 6, 1972
"The economic philosophy of the [Nixon] administration is based on the principle that the business of America is business, and...the economic reality for the inexperienced and the untrained black man, Indian, Chicano and the poor will have to continue to be: last hired and first fired. "

BILLY GRAHAM - September 8, 1972
"Are the Americans who advocate total secular freedom really free? It's true that they are free to take narcotics, they are free to experiment with uninhibited sex, free to go unwashed and free to dress any way they like....[But] freedom can only exist where there is moral restraint."

KATHARINE GRAHAM - November 17, 1972
"A certain tension...has developed between The Washington Post and the administration over our coverage of the so-called Watergate affair. The Washington Post was central to the pursuit and public disclosure of most of what we now know about the story."

BELLA ABZUG - March 23, 1973
"It never fails to amaze me when men, who all their lives existed contentedly with unwritten quotas that have effectively kept women and blacks and other minorities out of political institutions and out of jobs, begin protesting when Affirmative Action programs start letting them in."

JESSE JACKSON - August 1, 1974
"We must not forget that the nation does stand guilty of having enslaved a people on this soil and must assume the responsibility of opening up doors of opportunity for the persons who were legally locked out, ...to do whatever necessary to give them the opportunity to catch up."

JOAN BAEZ - November 6, 1981
"It is my opinion that a very basic moral fiber of this country, if it's to exist at all, is dependent upon our treatment of people in need....Compassion and caring are a part of a new moral necessity. They may save us from international disgrace."

QUEEN NOOR AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN - March 16, 1984
"We in the Arab world are perplexed by America's continued unconditional support of Israel, and we are dismayed by the degree to which the United States, in the process, has been led to compromise its fundamental principles of human rights and justice under the law."

CESAR CHAVEZ - November 9, 1984
"All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if we're not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded."

CARL SAGAN - February 8, 1985
"I want to talk to you about nuclear winter, the surprising and unexpected recent discovery that even a relatively small nuclear war may be capable of producing a global climatic catastrophe: ...The sun, in effect, turned off...[prompting] massive species extinctions...."

DESMOND TUTU - January 22, 1986
"To satisfy their racist political ideology, the minority government has uprooted 3.5 million people and dumped them, as if they were rubbish, in the poverty-stricken, arid bantustan resettlement camps, where children starve...by deliberate government policy."

DAN QUAYLE - May 19, 1992
"...It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice."

BILL GATES - October 21, 1993
"When I think of this [information] highway, I think of an incredible breadth of applications....In a certain sense, you won't think of your community as...the people who happen to live physically close to you. Rather, you'll think of communities that are formed...across this network."

JANE GOODALL - May 22, 1997
"The logging companies belong to industrialized corporations coming from North America, Canada, Europe, Japan and, more recently, Indonesia. These are the countries that are erasing the last of Africa's rainforests...[for] tropical hardwood furniture."

GORE VIDAL - October 4, 2000
"Domestically, the country is run entirely by corporate America. They pay for everything. They pay for this one-party system we have with two right wings, Democrat and Republican. And poor Ralph Nader's trying to do a third party, when what we need is a second party."