We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

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