"To thousands of young men and women, this act means the path of knowledge is open to all that have the determination to walk it. It means a way to deeper personal fulfillment, greater personal productivity, and increased personal reward * * * an incentive to stay in school."
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginn..."
"The choice is ours to make."
"I don't want to put people on the dole, I don't want to put people on government assistance. I want them to become prosperous and self sufficient."
"There is a new beat and rhythm on our land. When a community college rises from a once-empty field, the country expands not outward but upward, forever to the service of the people and the progress of..."
"5-year-olds are the inheritors of poverty and not its creators; and unless we act, these children... will pass it onto the next generation like a family birthmark."
"A President of the United States who is a Democrat, who has 59 or 60 votes in the Senate, who has 17 or 18 Republican votes for something that is important to him, ought to be able to pass it."
"If I have lost Cronkite, I have lost Middle America."
"Jerrie, if we let you or other women into the space program, we have to let blacks in, we'd have to let Mexican-Americans in, we have to let every minority in and we just can't do it."
"It was the right time, the right place, the right person, the right thing to do."