We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and….

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues..

It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two cou….

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve….

They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew s….

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..

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any ….

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opport….

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 int….

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle..

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-fa….

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world..

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun s….

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 t….

Well, I'm not a crook..

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate an….

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up..

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. ….

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet..

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to..

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind….