There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.