"There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem."

"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."

For with a country as with a person, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

"SO IT WAS at Lexington and Concord. SO IT WAS a century ago at Appomattox. SO IT WAS last week in Selma, Alabama."

"I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources."

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

"So it was at LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. So it was a century ago at APPOMATTOX. So it was last week in SELMA, Alabama."

"Our mission is at once the oldest and most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man."

"The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger."

"But it is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope--because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out."

"Have we found our happy valley?"

"Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans."

"There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem."

"Prosperity already tests the persistence of our progressive purpose."

"I see millions whose lives...I see millions denied...I see millions lacking the means..."

"Wednesday, I will send to Congress a law...the broad principles of that bill will be in the hands of the Democratic and Republican leaders tomorrow. After they have reviewed it, it will come here formally as a bill..."

"No law that we now have on the books---and I have helped to put three of them there..."

"These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."

"Comfort says, 'Tarry a while.'"