Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.