For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.