But I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met.

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are i…

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expr…

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are…

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with th…