“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”

“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”

“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”

“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”

“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”

“There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.”