I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.