'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'

-Richard Milhous Nixon

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

-Richard Milhous Nixon

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

-Anonymous

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

-Blaise Pascal

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

-Dan Quayle

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-Dwight D Eisenhower