The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

David Bruce
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

Frank Church
The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

John Foster Dulles
The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

Don Edwards
The world works better when we get along, and that’s what we owe everybody.

Dwight Eisenhower
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

Gerald Ford
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

It would be a shame if the public uproar forced us to go beyond, and to damage the integrity of the CIA,I automatically assume what you did was right unless it’s proven otherwise.

H R Haldeman
After Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up. Many of the facts about Oswald unavoidably pointed to a Cuban connection.....In a chilling parallel to their cover-up at Watergate, the CIA literally erased any connection between Kennedy's assassination and the CIA.

Nicholas Katzenbach
The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he had no confederates who are still at large.

Richard Nixon
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

Lyndon and I both wanted to be president. The difference was I wouldn't kill for it.

Harry S Truman
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.....There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it.

Ralph Yarborough
Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it.