I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.