When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.