Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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)

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

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.