Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.