I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Solutions are not the answer.

I let the American people down.

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.