Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

I can always get along with an honest friend.

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.