The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.