Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.