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

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

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

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.

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)