"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker." — Richard M. Nixon

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.