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.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

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

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.