A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.