It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.