Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

To be what it takes for truly being is the most profound skill among all that exists in any form

Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Be the sun and all will see you.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.