The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

'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.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

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.