The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

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

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

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