I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge..

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..

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth.

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 ….

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his deman….

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion..

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 ….

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to r….

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right..

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity..

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when….

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all..

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work..

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them..

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 no….

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and em….

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this centur….

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything..

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time..

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We c….

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good ….