Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service.
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
The sky is no longer the limit.
Your mind must always go, even while you’re shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.
I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.
I don’t know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
The three most difficult words to speak are, “I was wrong.”
The bastards have never been bombed like they’re going to be bombed this time.
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the “get rich quick” books are those who write them.
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.
Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.
Don’t try to take on a new personality; it doesn’t work.
If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint – no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...
The ultimate test of a nation’s character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.
I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.