Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.