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 can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

The color of communism was not red but gray.