The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

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

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

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