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

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.