This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. (January 26, 1983)

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas