...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.