No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.