One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
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.
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.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.
You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.
I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.