You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.