"More than any President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson reminded the American people that poverty has no place in a land that is as rich as this nation."
"I never knew either Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, but I can never forget the impact that their administrations had on my home State of Georgia."
"I will not let statistics obliterate human realities if I am elected President."
"I leave you with my pledge that I continue to be committed to the goals of the Great Society."
"I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great Society 'promised too much.'"
"I don't think these are excessive promises."
"Just think back to what life was like in 1961."
"It was during these Kennedy-Johnson years that this nation made an unalterable commitment to heal the racial divisions that had estranged South from North and black from white for more than a century."
"I see an equally important task confronting the next President, as well."
"I will try to build on the enduring framework of the Great Society and the New Frontier."
"Too many bureaucrats learn the hard way to accept the creed."