This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.