Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.

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

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

I let the American people down.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.