The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.