I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

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.