...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.