Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.