The noblest search is the search for excellence.

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.