Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.