"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."

"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."

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

"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it."

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."

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

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."

"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good."

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"I'm the only president you've got."

"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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

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

"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."

"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

"It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought."

"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."

"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."

"You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote."