Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time – it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.
What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
I’m not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO’s at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
Solutions are not the answer.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.