If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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

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.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.