I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.