Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits are high. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.