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

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

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.