“[W]hat I perceive for this nation in the year 2000 is so exciting to me that I just hope the doctors hurry up and get busy and let me live that long.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON
“We see nothing but increasingly brighter clouds every month.”
—GERALD FORD
“There will come a time we can look back and say, ‘Well, who should have done what when.’ And it ought to be done. But now is not the time.”
—BILL CLINTON