He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.