The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."