The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.