An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

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

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

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

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.