There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.