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

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.