top of page
"In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end."
Standard
Customized
More

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election."
Politics

"Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together."
People

"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."
Family

"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
Independence

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
Government

"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
Time

"When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say."
Politics

"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."
Experience

"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
Experience

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
Politics
bottom of page