If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.