The noblest search is the search for excellence.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.