I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

God, I hate the Germans.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.