The noblest search is the search for excellence.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Every President wants to do right.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.