When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.