You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Study men, not historians.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.