A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

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

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

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.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.