The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office – and by personal conviction – I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
I don’t have any handicap. I am all handicap.
It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining.
He’s got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That’s what we were worried about.
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel.
If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.