“The buck stops here.”
“Study men, not historians.”
“If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!”
“Conceit is God's gift to little men.”
“If you can't convince them; confuse them.”
“Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.”
“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”
“We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.”
“Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.”
“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”
“Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.”
“I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.”
“Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
“When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.”
“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
“Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.”
“If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.”
“How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''”
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”
“Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand, on the other.''”
“Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.”
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.”
“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”
“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.”
“We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.”
“It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.”
“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.”
“When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.”