You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

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