Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

I have tried so hard to do right.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.