My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

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

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.