One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

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.

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.