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

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.

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

When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.