The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.