In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.