You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.