As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.