It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.'

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

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.