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.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

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.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.