I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.