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

Men make history. History does not make the man.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.