There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.