You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

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.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

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.

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.