We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again