"I feel quite sure that the American..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.
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“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.”
“Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.”
“The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.”
More on Leadership
“Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.”
“I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.”
“You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.”
More on Crisis
“It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.”
“I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”