Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.