Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

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

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.