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.

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

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

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

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...