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

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.

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.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

The greatest universe is the one within you.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.