The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.