To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.