"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

"The buck stops here!"

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

"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."

"If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again."

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."

"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"A President cannot always be popular."

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody "eating" crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases."

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."

"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."

"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."

"I've never wanted to be the boss."

"To me, success is choice and opportunity."

"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."

"If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that."