I didn’t do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.
With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes “with healing in its wings;” with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.
Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service.
We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world – but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit.
No failure is final unless you ratify it.
If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.
Yes, I wish I’d done it sooner.
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
The great silent majority.
Bring us together again.
Once you get into this great stream of history you can’t get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream – if it is intended that you stay there.
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won’t rhyme So what’s it worth? This peace on Earth.
Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth.
Italy hasn’t had a government since Mussolini.