I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.