I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

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

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present