When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

Partisanship must end at the waters edge.