Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.