When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The artist, ... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

We seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of men.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.