I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The average American is just like the child in the family.

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

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.