President

Kami tidak memilih menjadi penjaga gerbang, tetapi tidak ada orang lain.

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.

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

Every President wants to do right.

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.

Karena inilah sebenarnya Amerika. Ini adalah gurun yang tidak disilangkan dan punggung bukit yang tidak didaki. Bintang yang belum tercapai dan panenlah yang tertidur di tanah yang belum dibajak.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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.

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

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Kemiskinan tidak harus menjadi penghalang untuk belajar dan belajar haruslah menawarkan jalan keluar dari kemiskinan.

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.

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.

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

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

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

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