Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
It sure is hell to be president.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Study men, not historians.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
A President cannot always be popular.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
The buck stops here!
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
