It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.