“I'm the only president you've got.”
“We must open the doors of opportunity.”
“A man without a vote is man without protection.”
“There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.”
“The noblest search is the search for excellence.”
“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
“To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.”
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.”
“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
“Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”
“If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.”
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
“A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
“The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.”
“The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.”
“As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”
“Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.”
“There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.”
“We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.”
“We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.”
“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”
“The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.”
“Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.”
“I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.”
“If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.”
“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”