It's A Tough Thing, To Know What

The Highest Patriotism Is Not A Blind Acceptance Of Official Policy, But A Love Of One's Country Deep Enough To Call Her To A Higher Plain.

It Is Simply Untrue That All Our Institutions Are Evil,... That All Politicians Are Mere Opportunists, That All Aspects Of University Life Are Corrupt. Having Discovered An Illness, It's Not Terribly Useful To Prescribe Death As A Cure.

I Think The Country's Getting Disgusted With Washington Partly Because Of The Decline Of Civility In Government.

When You Start One Of These Programs, School Lunch Programs, In A Country That Heretofore Had Nothing Of That Kind, Immediately School Enrollment Jumps Dramatically. Girls And Boys Get To The Classroom With The Promise Of A Good Meal Once A Day.

I'm Constantly Meeting People Who Said That They Cast Their First Vote For Me, Or That They Cut Their Eye Teeth On The 1972 Campaign, Or That They Didn't Vote For Me But Admire My Positions.