I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.

Study men, not historians.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.