Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.