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Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Where the hell is Chad?

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

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

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

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

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 don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

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.

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.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

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

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The finest steel must go through the hottest fire.

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

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

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

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

This is a great day for France!

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

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

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

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

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

The press is the enemy.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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 people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won't, because most historians are on the left.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Well, I'm not a crook.

America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

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

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Publicly, we say one thing ... Actually, we do another.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Some of the peoples of Africa have been out of trees for only about 50 years.

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.