Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.