Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to...
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
The press is the enemy.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
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 in a nation.
The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
