When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

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

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.