In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people’s urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
I just don’t think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.
I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial – for Gillette.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.
We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.
Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can’t do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
It’s more like it is now than it ever has been.
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.
The length of one’s days matters less than the love of one’s family and friends.
I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.