For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

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.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.