An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.