Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

True poverty does not come from God.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.