Tell them to send everything that can fly.

I let the American people down.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.