My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

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

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.