When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.