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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.