The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

--Saturday Evening Post
1 Dec 1962

John Gardner, HEW Secretary, Common Cause Founder, Dies
By Richard Pearson
Washington Post
Monday, February 18, 2002; Page B06

'Mentor to the World'
By Fred Wertheimer
Washington Post
Tuesday, February 19, 2002; Page A15

John W. Gardner, 89, Founder of Common Cause and Adviser to Presidents, Dies
By Robert D. McFadden
New York Times

John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, engineer of President Lyndon B. Johnson's 'Great Society' program, dead at 89
Stanford Report, February 17, 2002

PBS Special: John Gardner: Uncommon American.

Remarks at New York City Memorial Service for John Gardner,
April 17, 2002