I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.