When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
I had rather be right than be President.
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"