If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

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.

Well, I'm not a crook.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.