Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.