I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.