Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

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

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.