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Each Moment In History Is A Fleeting Time, Precious And Unique. But Some Stand Out As Moments Of Beginning, In Which Courses Are Set That Shape Decades Or Centuries.

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I'll Speak For The Man, Or Against Him, Whichever Will Do Him The Most Good.

Screw State! State's Always On The Side Of The Blacks. The Hell With Them!

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 History Are Running In Another Direction.

The Pakistanis Are Straightforward And Sometimes Extremely Stupid. The Indians Are More Devious, Sometimes So Smart That We Fall For Their Line.

Voters Quickly Forget What A Man Says.

I Would Not Like To Be A Political Leader In Russia. They Never Know When They're Being Taped.

I Don't Know Anything That Builds The Will To Win Better Than Competitive Sports.

I Was Under Medication When I Made The Decision To Burn The Tapes.

If We Take The Route Of The Permanent Handout, The American Character Will Itself Be Impoverished.

The Constitution Supposes What The History Of All Governments Demonstrates, That The Executive Is The Branch Of Power Most Interested In War And Most Prone To It. It Has Accordingly With Studied Care, Vested The Question Of War In The Legislature. [if A President Is Successful In Bypassing The Congress] It Is Evident That The People Are Cheated Out Of The Best Ingredients In The Government, The Safeguards Of Peace Which Is The Greatest Of Their Blessings.

While Technically I Did Not Commit A Crime, An Impeachable Offense... These Are Legalisms, As Far As The Handling Of This Matter Is Concerned; It Was So Botched Up, I Made So Many Bad Judgments. The Worst Ones, Mistakes Of The Heart, Rather Than The Head. But Let Me Say, A Man In That Top Job - He's Got To Have A Heart, But His Head Must Always Rule His Heart.

It I Talked About Watergate, I Was Described As Struggling To Free Myself From The Morass. If I Did Not Talk About Watergate, I Was Accused Of Being Out Of Touch With Reality.

What Kind Of Nation We Will Be, What Kind Of World We Will Live In, Whether We Shape The Future In The Image Of Our Hopes, Is Ours To Determine By Our Actions And Our Choices.

People Are Persuaded By Reason, But Moved By Emotion; [the Leader] Must Both Persuade Them And Move Them.

President Johnson And I Have A Lot In Common. We Were Both Born In Small Towns And We're Both Fortunate In The Fact That We Think We Married Above Ourselves.

The Color Of Communism Was Not Red But Gray.

In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History, You Can't Get Out.

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 Revolve Around It.

A Politician Knows That His Friends Are Not Always His Allies, And That His Adversaries Are Not Always His Enemies.

I Also Believe That Academic Freedom Should Protect The Right Of A Professor Or Student To Advocate Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Or Any Other Minority Viewpoint - No Matter How Distasteful To The Majority, Provided...

Academic Freedom

Baseball Without Fans Is Like Jayne Mansfield Without A Sweater. Hang On, That Can Be Taken Two Ways.

Never Forget, The Press Is The Enemy. The Establishment Is The Enemy. The Professors Are The Enemy. Professors Are The Enemy. Write That On A Blackboard 100 Times And Never Forget It.

The Jews Are Just A Very Aggressive And Abrasive And Obnoxious Personality.

The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family. You Give Him Some Responsibility And He Is Going To Amount To Something. He Is Going To Do Something. If, On The Other Hand, You Make Him Completely Dependent And Pamper Him And Cater To Him Too Much, You Are Going To Make Him Soft, Spoiled And Eventually A Very Weak Individual.

A Riot Is A Spontaneous Outburst. A War Is Subject To Advance Planning.

No Failure Is Final Unless You Ratify It.

I See The Face Of A Child. He Lives In A Great City. He Is Black. Or He Is White. He Is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None Of That Matters. What Matters, He's An American Child.

Because The Public Lands Belong To All Americans, This 1872 Mining Act Should Be Repealed.

... Member Countries Shall Take Necessary Action And/or Shall Establish Negotiations, Individually Or In Groups, With The Oil Companies With A View To Adopting Ways And Means To Offset Any Adverse Effects On The Per Barrel Real Income Of Member Countries Resulting From The International Monetary Developments As Of 15th August 1971.

Don't Get The Impression That You Arouse My Anger. You See, One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects.

An Important Measure Of Our True Commitment To Environmental Quality Is Our Dedication To Protecting The Wilderness And Its Inhabitants. We Must Recognize Their Ecological Significance And Preserve Them As Sources Of Inspiration And Education. And We Need Them As Places Of Quiet Refuge And Reflection.

And I Want You To Know That I Have No Intention Whatever Of Ever Walking Away From The Job That The People Elected Me To Do For The People Of The United States.

I Was Not Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed To Be Untrue.

If In Order To Avoid Further Communist Expansion In Asia And Particularly In Indo-china, If In Order To Avoid It We Must Take The Risk By Putting American Boys In, I Believe That The Executive Branch Of The Government Has To Take The Politically Unpopular Position Of Facing Up To It And Doing It, And I Personally Would Support Such A Decision.

Idealism Without Pragmatism Is Impotent. Pragmatism Without Idealism Is Meaningless. The Key To Effective Leadership Is Pragmatic Idealism.

With Those Who Are Willing To Join, Let Us Cooperate To Reduce The Burden Of Arms, To Strengthen The Structure Of Peace, To Lift Up The Poor And The Hungry.

What Are Our Schools For If Not Indoctrination Against Communism?

The Three Most Difficult Words To Speak Are, "i Was Wrong."

Nobody Is A Friend Of Ours. Let's Face It.

When I Grow Up, I Want To Be An Honest Lawyer So Things Like That Can't Happen.

When I Spoke At The St. Lawrence Seaway Ceremonies In 1969, I Borrowed Some Words From The Monument There Which I Had Joined Queen Elizabeth In Dedicating Just 10 Years Before. That Monument, As Its Inscription Puts It, 'bears Witness To The Common Purpose Of Two Nations Whose Frontiers Are The Frontiers Of Friendship, Whose Ways Are The Ways Of Freedom, Whose Works Are The Works Of Peace'.

Baseball Is Great Because Anything Can Happen Through The Ninth Inning.

Anything Can Happen

The Presidency Has Many Problems, But Boredom Is The Least Of Them.

The 1970s Must Be The Years When America Pays Its Debt To The Past By Reclaiming The Purity Of Its Air, Its Waters, And Our Living Environment. It Is Literally Now Or Never.

Peace Is A Great Goal, But It Is Not A Panacea. Neither Is Material Wealth.

Federal And State Laws (should) Be Changed To No Longer Make It A Crime To Possess Marijuana For Private Use.

When I Retire I'm Going To Spend My Evenings By The Fireplace Going Through Those Boxes. There Are Things In There That Ought To Be Burned.

Politics Would Be A Helluva Good Business If It Weren't For The Goddamned People.

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.

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 Through Some Difficult Times Together, And I Can Only Say That The Friendship That We Have For This Nation, The Respect And The Admiration We Have For The People Of This Nation, Their Courage, Their Tenacity, Their Firmness In The Face Of Very Great Odds, Is One That Makes Us Proud To Stand With Israel, As We Have In The Past In Times Of Trouble, And Now To Work With Israel In A Better Time, A Time That We Trust Will Be A Time Of Peace.

Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.

The Jews Are Irreligious, Atheistic, Immoral Bunch Of Bastards.

It Is Essential That We Take Steps To Prevent Chemical Substances From Becoming Environmental Hazards. Unless We Develop Better Methods To Assure Adequate Testing Of Chemicals, We Will Be Inviting The Environmental Crisis Of The Future.

Unless A President Can Protect The Privacy Of The Advice He Gets, He Cannot Get The Advice He Needs.

The Peace We Seek To Win Is Not Victory Over Any Other People, But The Peace That Comes "with Healing In Its Wings;" With Compassion For Those Who Have Suffered; With Understanding For Those Who Have Opposed Us; With The Opportunity For All The Peoples Of This Earth To Choose Their Own Destiny.

Let Us Begin By Committing Ourselves To The Truth To See It Like It Is, And Tell It Like It Is, To Find The Truth, To Speak The Truth, And To Live The Truth.

My Concern Today Is Not With The Length Of A Person's Hair But With His Conduct.

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.

My View Is That One Should Not Break Up A Winning Combination.

The People's Right To Change What Does Not Work Is One Of The Greatest Principles In Our System Of Government

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.

Capitalism Works Better Than It Sounds, While Socialism Sounds Better Than It Works.

Television In Its Present Form...[is] The Opiate Of The People Of The United States.

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 Profited, Never Profited From Public Service

Anybody Who Wants To Be An Ambassador, Wants To Pay At Least $250,000.

Let Us Remember That The Main Purpose Of American Aid Is Not To Help Other Nations, But To Help Ourselves.

The Soviet Union Began By Banishing God. The United States Began As A Community Of People Who Wanted To Worship God As They Chose. . . Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Those In The United States Whose Desire To Create A Strictly Secular Society Is As Strong As Lenin's Was Should Study This Cold War Lesson Closely. Communism Was Defeated By An Alliance Spearheaded By 'one Nation Under God.'

I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.

A Man Who Has Never Lost Himself In A Cause Bigger Than Himself Has Missed One Of Life's Mountaintop Experiences. Only In Losing Himself Does He Find Himself. Only Then Does He Discover All The Latent Strengths He Never Knew He Had And Which Otherwise Would Have Remained Dormant.

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

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.

As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

Our Chief Justices Have Probably Had More Profound And Lasting Influence On Their Times And On The Direction Of The Nation Than Most Presidents.

History Is A Pathetic Junkyard Of Broken Treaties.

You Have My Assurance That We Will Respond With Full Force Should The Settlement Be Violated By North Vietnam.

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.

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 Countries, And To The Hope Of Our Children That Peace And Harmony Can Be The Legacy Of Our Generation To Theirs.

The Recent Upsurge Of Public Concern Over Environmental Questions Reflects A Belated Recognition That Man Has Been Too Cavalier In His Relations With Nature. Unless We Arrest The Depredations That Have Been Inflicted So Carelessly On Our Natural Systems-which Exist In An Intricate Set Of Balances-we Face The Prospect Of Ecological Disaster.

The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going To Be Bombed This Time.

Listen, I Don't Know Anything About Polygraphs And I Don't Know How Accurate They Are, But I Know They'll Scare The Hell Out Of People.

Communism Denies God, Enslaves Men, And Destroys Justice.

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.

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 Court In The Land Except The Court Of Impeachment.

What Was Watergate? A Little Bugging!

The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow Is The Title Of Peacemaker.

I Would Rather Be A One-term President And Do What I Believe Is Right Than To Be A Two-term President At The Cost Of Seeing America Become A Second-race Power And To See This Nation Accept The First Defeat In Its Proud 190-year History.

As You Know, The Separation Of Church And State Is Not Subject To Discussion Or Alteration. Under Our Constitution No Church Or Religion Can Be Supported By The U.s. Government. We Maintain Freedom Of Religion So That An American Can Either Worship In The Church Of His Choice Or Choose To Go To No Church At All.

Let Us Build A Structure Of Peace In The World In Which The Weak Are As Safe As The Strong In Which Each Respects The Right Of The Other To Live By A Different System In Which Those Who Would Influence Others Will Do So By The Strength Of Their Ideas, And Not By The Force Of Their Arms. Let Us Accept That High Responsibility Not As A Burden, But Gladly Gladly Because The Chance To Build Such A Peace Is The Noblest Endeavor In Which A Nation Can Engage.

Each Moment In History Is A Fleeting Time, Precious And Unique. But Some Stand Out As Moments Of Beginning, In Which Courses Are Set That Shape Decades Or Centuries.

Yet We Can Maintain A Free Society Only If We Recognize That In A Free Society No One Can Win All The Time. No One Can Have His Own Way All The Time, And No One Is Right All The Time.

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.

When Information Which Properly Belongs To The Public Is Systematically Withheld By Those In Power, The People Soon Become Ignorant Of Their Own Affairs, Distrustful Of Those Who Manage Them, And -- Eventually -- Incapable Of Determining Their Own Destinies.

We Must Never Forget That If The War In Vietnam Is Lost ... The Right Of Free Speech Will Be Extinguished Throughout The World.

I'd Like To See People, Instead Of Spending So Much Time On The Ethical Problem, Get After The Problems That Really Affect The People Of This Country

We Do Not Learn By Inference And Deduction And The Application Of Mathematics To Philosophy, But By Direct Intercourse And Sympathy.

My Gravest Secret Is That I Really Did Fake The Moon Landing. On Venus!

Only If You Have Been In The Deepest Valley, Can You Ever Know How Magnificent It Is To Be On The Highest Mountain.

As This Long And Difficult War Ends, I Would Like To Address A Few Special Words To The American People: Your Steadfastness In Supporting Our Insistence On Peace With Honor Has Made Peace With Honor Possible.

We Shall Continue, In This Era Of Negotiation, To Work For The Limitation Of Nuclear Arms And To Reduce The Danger Of Confrontation Between The Great Powers.

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.

The Easiest Period In A Crisis Situation Is Actually The Battle Itself. The Most Difficult Is The Period Of Indecision - Whether To Fight Or Run Away. And The Most Dangerous Period Is The Aftermath. It Is Then, With All His Resources Spent And His Guard Down, That An Individual Must Watch Out For Dulled Reactions And Faulty Judgment.

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.

If We Succeed, It Will Not Be Because Of What We Have, But It Will Be Because Of What We Are; Not Because Of What We Own, But, Rather Because Of What We Believe.

Inspirational Life

The Only Way To Achieve A Practical, Livable Peace In A World Of Competing Nations Is To Take The Profit Out Of War.

I Want To Be Sure...that Nothing Is Done On These Veterans. Is That Understood?...is The Word Out? That They Are Not To Touch Em, They Are Not To Do A Thing?...get A Hold Of The District Police; They're Not To Touch Them, They're To Do Nothing: Just Let Em Raise Hell.

You Cannot Win A Battle In Any Arena Merely By Defending Yourself.

I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.

I Believe In The Battle-whether It's The Battle Of A Campaign Or The Battle Of This Office, Which Is A Continuing Battle.

A Public Man Must Never Forget That He Loses His Usefulness When He As An Individual, Rather Than His Policy, Becomes The Issue.

The Great Silent Majority.

The Important Thing Is That We Maintain Plausible Deniability.

Important Things

But Also Out Here In This Dreary, Difficult War, I Think History Will Record That This May Have Been One Of Americas Finest Hours, Because We Took A Difficult Task And We Succeeded.

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

Remember, Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty. Always Remember, Others May Hate You. But Those Who Hate You Don't Win Unless You Hate Them. And Then You Destroy Yourself.

Any Culture Which Can Put A Man On The Moon Is Capable Of Gathering All The Nations Of The Earth In Peace, Justice And Concord.

The Cold War Isn't Thawing; It Is Burning With A Deadly Heat. Communism Isn't Sleeping; It Is, As Always, Plotting, Scheming, Working, Fighting.

Don't Try To Take On A New Personality; It Doesn't Work.

I'm Not A Crook. I've Earned Everything I've Got.

Tonight - To You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americans - I Ask For Your Support.

...we Must Strike A Balance So That The Protection Of Our Irreplaceable Heritage Becomes As Important As Its Use. The Price Of Economic Growth Need Not And Will Not Be Deterioration In The Quality Of Our Lives And Our Surroundings.

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.

Your Mind Must Always Go, Even While You're Shaking Hands And Going Through All The Maneuvers. I Developed The Ability Long Ago To Do One Thing While Thinking About Another.

Finishing Second In The Olympics Gets You Silver. Finishing Second In Politics Gets You Oblivion.

We Don't Owe The Blacks A Damn Thing, Anyway.

It Is Necessary For Me To Establish A Winner Image. Therefore, I Have To Beat Somebody.

Neil And Buzz, I Am Talking To You By Telephone From The Oval Office At The White House, And This Certainly Has To Be The Most Historic Telephone Call Ever Made. . . . Because Of What You Have Done, The Heavens Have Become A Part Of Man's World. As You Talk To Us From The Sea Of Tranquility, It Inspires Us To Redouble Our Efforts To Bring Peace And Tranquility To Earth.

We Should Set Goals Within The Limits Of Our Resources While Working To The Limits Of Our Powers.

You Can't Depend On The Man Who Made The Mess To Clean It Up.

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 Century, Wars Which Cost Twenty Million Dead, Were Fought Between Christian Nations Praying To The Same God.

While Might Certainly Does Not Make Right, Neither Does Right By Itself Make Might.

Now That All The Members Of The Press Are So Delighted I Lost, I'd Like To Make A Statement. As I Leave You I Want You To Know -just Think How Much You'll Be Missing. You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.

We Will Establish A New System That Makes High-quality Health Care Available To Every American In A Dignified Manner And At A Price He Can Afford.

Rarely Have So Many People Been So Wrong About So Much.

But Above All, What This Congress Can Be Remembered For Is Opening The Way To A New American Revolutiona Peaceful Revolution In Which Power Was Turned Back To The Peoplein Which Government At All Levels Was Refreshed And Renewed And Made Truly Responsive. This Can Be A Revolution As Profound, As Far-reaching, As Exciting As That First Revolution Almost 200 Years Agoand It Can Mean That Just 5 Years From Now America Will Enter Its Third Century As A Young Nation New In Spirit, With All The Vigor And The Freshness With Which It Began Its First Century.

In Our Own Lives, Let Each Of Us Ask — Not Just What Will Government Do For Me, But What Can I Do For Myself? In The Challenges We Face Together, Let Each Of Us Ask —not Just How Can Government Help, But How Can I Help?

I Always Remember That Whatever I Have Done In The Past Or May Do In The Future, Duke University Is Responsible In One Way Or Another.

I Like The Job I Have, But If I Had To Live My Life Over Again, I Would Like To Have Ended Up A Sports Writer.

Scrubbing Floors And Emptying Bedpans Has As Much Dignity As The Presidency.

The Chinese Use Two Brush Strokes To Write The Word "crisis." One Brush Stroke Stands For Danger; The Other For Opportunity.

Positive Thinking

The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

Reading Not Only Enlarges And Challenges The Mind; It Also Engages And Exercises The Brain. Today's Youth Who Sits Mesmerized By A Television Screen Is Not Going To Be Tomorrow's Leader. Television Watching Is Passive. Reading Is Active.

Television Watching

Failure Isn't Falling Down. Failure Is Not Getting Up After You Have Fallen Down.

The Jewish Cabal Is Out To Get Me.

I Seriously Doubt If We Will Ever Have Another War. This Is Probably The Very Last One.

I Doubt If Any Of Them Would Even Intentionally Double-park.

I Have The Greatest Affection For Them But I Know They're Not Going To Make It For 500 Years. They Aren't. You Know It, Too. The Mexicans Are A Different Cup Of Tea. They Have A Heritage. At The Present Time They Steal, They're Dishonest, But They Do Have Some Concept Of Family Life. They Don't Live Like A Bunch Of Dogs, Which The Negroes Do Live Like.

I Let The American People Down.

It Is Sad That It Was Necessary That Santa Barbara Should Be The Example That Had To Bring It To The Attention Of The American People. What Is Involved Is The Use Of Our Resources Of The Sea And Of The Land In A More Effective Way And With More Concern For Preserving The Beauty And The Natural Resources That Are So Important To Any Kind Of Society That We Want For The Future. The Santa Barbara Incident Has Frankly Touched The Conscience Of The American People.

Jesus This Song You Wrote The Words Are Sticking In My Throat Peace On Earth Hear It Every Christmas Time But Hope And History Won't Rhyme So What's It Worth? This Peace On Earth

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 Second.

What A Strange Creature Man Is That He Fouls His Own Nest.

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 Shines.

The Jawbone Of An Ass Is Just As Dangerous A Weapon Today As In Sampson's Time.

The Only Place You And I Disagree Is With Regard To The Bombing. You're So Goddamned Concerned About The Civilians, And I (in Contrast) Don't Give A Damn. I Don't Care.". . . "i'd Rather Use The Nuclear Bomb. . . Does That Bother You? I Just Want You To Think Big.

They Say, "gee, You Look Great." That Means They Thought You Looked Like Hell Before.

I'm Not Going To Be The First American President To Lose A War.

Success Is Not A Harbor But A Voyage With Its Own Perils To The Spirit ... The Lesson That Most Of Us On This Voyage Never Learn, But Can Never Quite Forget, Is That To Win Is Sometimes To Lose.

Being Trustworthy Is Something You Are, Something You Stand For And A Core Value You Live By. It Isn't Something You Can Train For Nor Is It Something You Can Manipulate. You Either Have Those Values Or You Don't.

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.

A President Can Ask For Reconciliation In The Racial Conflict That Divides Americans. But Reconciliation Comes Only From The Hearts Of People.

As Far As I Am Concerned Now, I Have No Enemies In The Press Whatsoever.

It Is Not Enough Just To Be For Peace. The Point Is, What Can We Do About It?

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

Sharp Increases In The Minimum Wage Rate Are Also Inflationary. Frequently Workers Paid More Than The Minimum Gauge Their Wages Relative To It. This Is Especially True Of Those Workers Who Are Paid By The Hour. An Increase In The Minimum Therefore Increases Their Demands For Higher Wages In Order To Maintain Their Place In The Structure Of Wages. And When The Increase Is As Sharp As It Is In H.r. 7935, The Result Is Sure To Be A Fresh Surge Of Inflation.

Certainly In The Next 50 Years We Shall See A Woman President, Perhaps Sooner Than You Think. A Woman Can And Should Be Able To Do Any Political Job That A Man Can Do.

Any Lady Who Is First Lady Likes Being First Lady. I Don't Care What They Say, They Like It.

Well, I Screwed It Up Real Good, Didn't I?

Most Days I Feel Like The Sole Survivor Of A Shipwreck, Rowing My Paddleboat Across A Sea Of People On Waves Made Of An Infinite Array Of Hands And Crests That Reveal Anonymous Faces. On A Good Day, The Clouds Part To Alight On-lo And Behold-an Island! I Step Ashore, Only Find That It Too Is Made Of People, Mangled Bodies Somehow Still Alive. They Grab At My Feet, Pulling Me Under Like Quicksand. The Last Thing I See Before Suffocating Is The Sky, A Billion Eyes Staring Down, Blinking In Undulating Electric Ripples. The Cold Rain I Feel On My Cheeks Is The Tears Of The People.

So You Are Lean And Mean And Resourceful And You Continue To Walk On The Edge Of The Precipice Because Over The Years You Have Become Fascinated By How Close You Can Walk Without Losing Your Balance.

With All The Power That A President Has, The Most Important Thing To Bear In Mind Is This: You Must Not Give Power To A Man Unless, Above Everything Else, He Has Character. Character Is The Most Important Qualification The President Of The United States Can Have.

If I Were To Make Public These Tapes, Containing Blunt And Candid Remarks On Many Different Subjects, The Confidentiality Of The Office Of The President Would Always Be Suspect.

If I Had Feelings, I Probably Wouldn’t Have Even Survived.

Government Has The Responsibility To Provide The Climate In Which Americans, All Americans, Have An Opportunity For Good Jobs; And Not Only For Good Jobs, But An Opportunity If They Have The Ability And The Desire, To Be Owners And Managers, To Have A Piece Of The Action, Because If They Have A Piece Of The Action, Then They Believe In The System Rather Than Fighting Against It.

Maybe New York Shouldn't Survive. Maybe It Should Go Through A Cycle Of Destruction.

Mr. Stevenson Has A Degree Alright-a Phd From The Acheson College Of Cowardly Communist Containment.

I Have Earned Every Cent. And In All Of My Years Of Public Life I Have Never Obstructed Justice.

We, This Nation Of Ours, Could Be The Richest Nation In The World. We Could Be The Freest Nation In The World - But Only If The Arts Are Alive And Flourishing Can We Experience The True Meaning Of Our Freedom, And Know The Full Glory Of The Human Spirit.

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 Interests Of America First Therefore, I Shall Resign The Presidency Effective At Noon Tomorrow.

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.

Top Of The World

I Don't Give A Damn About The Civilians.

But It's Not Just The Ratty Part Of Town. The Upper Class In San Francisco Is That Way. The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine, With That San Francisco Crowd. I Can't Shake Hands With Anybody From San Francisco.

Peace Demands More, Not Less, From A People. Peace Lacks The Clarity Of Purpose And The Cadence Of War. War Is Scripted: Peace Is Improvisation.

Clarity Of Purpose

No President In History Has Been More Vilified Or Was More Vilivied During The Time He Was President Than Lincoln. Those Who Knew Him, His Secretaries, Have Written That He Was Deeply Hurt By What Was Said About Him And Drawn About Him, But On The Other Hand, Lincoln Had The Great Strength Of Character Never To Display It, Always Able To Stand Tall And Strong And Firm No Matter How Harsh Or Unfair The Criticism Might Be. These Elements Of Greatness, Of Course, Inspire Us All Today.

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.

People Should Not Have To Pay For Pollution They Do Not Cause.

I'm Not At Liberty To Discuss The Governments Knowledge Of Extraterrestrial Ufo's At This Time. I Am Still Personally Being Briefed On The Subject!

You've Got To Learn To Survive A Defeat. That's When You Develop Character.

Italy Hasn't Had A Government Since Mussolini.

I'm Not A Lovable Man.

Honesty May Not Be The Best Policy, But It Is Worth Trying Once In A While.

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History You Can't Get Out. You Can Drown. Or You Can Be Pulled Ashore By The Tide. But It Is Awfully Hard To Get Out When You Are In The Middle Of The Stream -- If It Is Intended That You Stay There.

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 The Costs Will Have To Be Borne By Each Citizen, Consumer And Taxpayer. How Clean Is Clean Enough Can Only Be Answered In Terms Of How Much We Are Willing To Pay And How Soon We Seek Success... It Is Simplistic To Seek Ecological Perfection At The Cost Of Bankrupting The Very Tax-paying Enterprises Which Must Pay For The Social Advances We Seek.

The Memory Of That Scene For Me Is Like A Frame Of Film Forever Frozen At That Moment: The Red Carpet, The Green Lawn, The White House, The Leaden Sky. The New President And His First Lady.

[peter] Drucker Says That Modern Government Can Do Only Two Things Well: Wage War And Inflate The Currency. Its The Aim Of My Administration To Prove Mr Drucker Wrong.

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

In His Heart Everyone Knows That The Only People Who Get Rich From The "get Rich Quick" Books Are Those Who Write Them.

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