Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

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.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.