What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

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

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?