Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.