...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.