America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Nelson A Rockefeller, (Jul 8 1908-1979), US politician; He was a moderate Republican govenor of New York, 1959-73; served as Vice-President under Gerald Ford, 1974-76.