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 profi….

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

If the President does it, it can't be illegal..

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..

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more t….

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

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

I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say..

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been th….

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game..

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment….

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 ….

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much..

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up..

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 don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of histo….

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..

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….

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen..

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest..

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation..