We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.