Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

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.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.