I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.