We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

Solutions are not the answer.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

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.