The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.