Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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

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

The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.