If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.