Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!

The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.