Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.