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

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

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