Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

...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.

'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.