I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
