America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.