Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.