What was Watergate? A little bugging!.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue..

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character..

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 only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a ….

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team..

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them..

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in….

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies..

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment..

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the e….

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the presid….

The average American is just like the child in the family..

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose..

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong.".

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories..

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God..

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now..

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist..

Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, an….

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-r….