Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.