Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways – to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
For among nations – as within nations – the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.
They say it’s the responsibility of the media to look at government – especially the President – with a microscope. I don’t argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it’s going too far.
I’d like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country.
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
They say, “Gee, you look great.” That means they thought you looked like hell before.
We don’t owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.
You don’t know how to lie. If you can’t lie, you’ll never go anywhere.
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.
Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
I’ve never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.