I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.