...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.