I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.