As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
It’s long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between “human rights” and “property rights,” suggesting that the two are separate and unequal – with “property rights” second to “human rights.”
Screw State! State’s always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!