The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.