"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"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."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

"The White House is the finest prison in the world."

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."

"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."