I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
I let the American people down.