Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

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

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

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.