With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

I'm not a lovable man.