If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

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

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.