Quotes

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

I have enjoyed my life, its disappointments outweighed by its pleasures. I have loved my country in a way that some people consider sentimental and out of style. I still do. And I remain an optimist with joy, without apology about this country and about the American experiment in democracy.

"The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped." -- From his last speech, Washington DC, November 1, 1977.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

The President has 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.