As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.