It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.
Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.
I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation’s interest.
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing.
Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.
I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven’t got a thing.
You’re in there with me. Personally.