A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.