I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.