The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

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