History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.