I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.