Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.