You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.