Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.