Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the...

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual...

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the...

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.