[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."

"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."

"I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came."

"Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed."