I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.