You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

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'.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.