Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.