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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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