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

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

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.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.