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[t]here May Be Some Truth In That If The Arabs Have Some Complaints About My Policy Towards Israel, They Have To Realize That The Jews In The U. S. Control The Entire Information And Propaganda Machine, The Large Newspapers, The Motion Pictures, Radio And Television, And The Big Companies, And There Is A Force That We Have To Take Into Consideration.

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We Still Think Of Air As Free. But Clean Air Is Not Free, And Neither Is Clean Water. The Price Tag On Pollution Control Is High. Through Our Years Of Past Carelessness We Incurred A Debt To Nature, And Now That Debt Is Being Called.

I Refuse To Make A Decision That Somebody Else Can Make. The First Rule Of Leadership Is To Save Yourself For The Big Decision. Don't Allow Your Mind To Become Cluttered.

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

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Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.

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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 Opportunity To Serve In Any Official Position. Maybe I Can Give A Little Advice From Time To Time.

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[t]here May Be Some Truth In That If The Arabs Have Some Complaints About My Policy Towards Israel, They Have To Realize That The Jews In The U. S. Control The Entire Information And Propaganda Machine, The Large Newspapers, The Motion Pictures, Radio And Television, And The Big Companies, And There Is A Force That We Have To Take Into Consideration.

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

Anything Can Happen

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Look, People Get Drunk ... People Chase Girls. And The Point Is, It's A Hell Of A Lot Better For Them To Get Drunk Than To Take Drugs. It's Better To Chase Girls Than Boys.

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 Not Like That I Never Shoot Blanks.

The Italians . . . You Can't Find One Who Is Honest.

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

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Nothing Would Please The Kremlin More Than To Have The People Of This Country Choose A Second Rate President.

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.

Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.

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

...because There Are No Local Or State Boundaries To The Problems Of Our Environment, The Federal Government Must Play An Active, Positive Role. We Can And Will Set Standards. We Can And Will Exercise Leadership.

I Can Take It. The Tougher It Gets, The Cooler I Get.

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Never Say No When A Client Asks For Something, Even If It Is The Moon. You Can Always Try, And Anyhow There Is Plenty Of Time Afterwards To Explain That It Was Not Possible.

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Positive Thinking

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Unpredictability Is The Greatest Asset A Leader Can Have.

Unpredictability

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Why Would Anyone Want To Be President Today? The Answer Is Not One Of Glory, Or Fame; Today The Burdens Of The Office Outweigh Its Privileges. Its Not Because The Presidency Offers A Chance To Be Somebody, But Because It Offers A Chance To Do Something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I'm Not A Crook.

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.

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.

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

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

Peace Is The Real And Right Memorial For Those Who Have Died In War.

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

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.

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

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.

Italy Hasn't Had A Government Since Mussolini.

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

The Successful Leader Does Not Talk Down To People. He Lifts Them Up.

...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.

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.

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

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

What Was Watergate? A Little Bugging!

We Are Committed To Cleaning Up The Air And Cleaning Up The Water. But We Also Are Committed To A Strong Economy, And We Are Not Going To Allow The Environmental Issue To Be Used Sometimes Falsely And Sometimes In A Demagogic Way Basically To Destroy The System-the Industrial System That Made This The Great Country It Is.

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

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.

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.

If Some Of My Judgments Were Wrong - And Some Were Wrong - They Were Made In What I Believed At The Time To Be The Best Interest Of The Nation.

Look At The Justice Department, It's Full Of Jews...the Lawyers In Government Are Damn Jews.

Once Genius Is Submerged By Bureaucracy, A Nation Is Doomed To Mediocrity.

I Got Into A Few Games After They Were Hopelessly Won Or Hopelessly Lost, You Know, When They Put The Substitutes In, And Finally The Water Boy, And Then Me. That Is The Way It Worked.

Never Be Too Proud To Go Onto Your Knees Before God.

There Can Be No Whitewash At The White House.

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

Idealism Without Realism Is Impotent. Realism Without Idealism Is Immoral.

Clean Air, Clean Water, Open Spaces - These Should Once Again Be The Birthright Of Every American.

For Its Part, Government Will Listen. We Will Strive To Listen In New Ways - To The Voices Of Quiet Anguish, To Voices That Speak Without Words, The Voices Of The Heart, To The Injured Voices, And The Anxious Voices, And The Voices That Have Despaired Of Being Heard.

When I Am The Candidate, I Run The Campaign.

In Ancient Days, Men Looked At Stars And Saw Their Heroes In The Constellations. In Modern Times, We Do Much The Same, But Our Heroes Are Epic Men Of Flesh And Blood.

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.

I Wish I Could Give You A Lot Of Advice, Based On My Experience Of Winning Political Debates. But I Don't Have That Experience. My Only Experience Is At Losing Them.

To A Crisis Of The Spirit, We Need An Answer Of The Spirit. To Find That Answer, We Need Only Look Within Ourselves. When We Listen To The Better Angels Of Our Nature, We Find That They Celebrate The Simple Things, The Basic Things--such As Goodness, Decency, Love, Kindness. Greatness Comes In Simple Trappings.

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

This Memorial Day Should Remind Us Of The Greatness That Past Generations Of Americans Achieved From Valley Forge To Vietnam, And It Should Inspire Us With The Determination To Keep America Great And Free By Keeping America Safe And Strong In Our Own Time, A Time Of Unique Destiny And Opportunity For Our Nation.

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 True Idealist Pursues What His Heart Says Is Right In A Way That His Head Says Will Work.

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.

Where The Hell Is Chad?

Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty.

Great Presidents

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.

The Man Of Thought Who Will Not Act Is Ineffective; The Man Of Action Who Will Not Think Is Dangerous.

If You Take No Risks, You Will Suffer No Defeats. But If You Take No Risks, You Win No Victories.

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.

God, Of Course, Is The Greatest Philosopher Of All.

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.

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.

I Played By The Rules Of Politics As I Found Them.

For One Priceless Moment In The Whole History Of Man, All Of The People On This Earth Are Truly One. One In Their Pride At What You Have Done, One In Our Prayers That You Will Return Safely To Earth.

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

The Lesson Of All History Warns Us That We Should Negotiate Only When Our Military Superiority Is So Convincing That We Can Achieve Our Objective At The Conference Table, And Deny The Aggressor Theirs.

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 Believe In Building Bridges, But We Should Only Build Our End Of The Bridge.

With All Our Differences, Whenever We Are Confronted With A Threat To Our Security We Are Not Then Republicans Or Democrats But Americans; We Are Not Then The Fifty States But The United States.

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.

Those Few Days After Kent State Were Among The Darkest Of My Presidency.

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.

If The President Does It, It Can't Be Illegal.

When The President Does It, That Means That It's Not Illegal.

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.

The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine.

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

I Didn't Do Anything Wrong And I Promise To Never Do It Again.

I Hereby Resign This Office Of President Of The United States.

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

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

The Student Who Invades An Administration Building, Roughs Up A Dean, Rifles The Files And Issues 'non-negotiable Demands' May Have Some Of His Demands Met By A Permissive University Administration. But The Greater His 'victory' The More He Will Have Undermined The Security Of His Own Rights.

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

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

Never Has So Much Military And Economic And Diplomatic Power Been Used So Ineffectively, And If After All Of This Time, And All Of This Sacrifice, And All Of This Support, There Is Still No End In Sight, Then I Say The Time Has Come For The American People To Turn To New Leadership Not Tied To The Mistakes And Policies Of The Past.

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

You Want A Wife Who Is Intelligent, But Not Too Intelligent.

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

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

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.

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

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

Nothing Is More Priceless And More Worthy Of Preservation Than The Rich Array Of Animal Life With Which Our Country Has Been Blessed. It Is A Many-faceted Treasure, Of Value To Scholars, Scientists, And Nature Lovers Alike, And It Forms A Vital Part Of The Heritage We All Share As Americans.

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

My Own View Is That Taping Of Conversations For Historical Purposes Was A Bad Decision On The Part Of All The Presidents. I Don't Think Kennedy Should Have Done It. I Don't Think Johnson Should Have Done It, And I Don't Think We Should Have Done It.

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

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.

You Don't Know How To Lie. If You Can't Lie, You'll Never Go Anywhere.

The Press Is The Enemy.

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

The Congress, The Administration And The Public All Share A Profound Commitment To The Rescue Of Our Natural Environment, And The Preservation Of The Earth As A Place Both Habitable By And Hospitable To Man.

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

Make Sure You Pay Your Taxes; Otherwise You Can Get In A Lot Of Trouble.

Solutions Are Not The Answer.

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?

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.

I Know You Heard What You Thought I Said, But What I Said Isn't What I Meant.

Since I Have Never One A Debate Let Me Tell You How Not To Lose One.

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

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.

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.

If An Individual Wants To Be A Leader And Isn't Controversial, That Means He Never Stood For Anything.

I Took A Look Around The Office. ... I Walked Out And Closed The Door Behind Me. I Knew That I Would Not Be Back There Again." (on Leaving The Executive Office Building)

It's A Piece Of Cake Until You Get To The Top. You Find You Can't Stop Playing The Game The Way You've Always Played It.

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

The Ability To Be Cool, Confident, And Decisive In Crisis Is Not An Inherited Characteristic But Is The Direct Result Of How Well The Individual Has Prepared Himself For The Battle.

You Must Never Give Up. You Must Remember That You Have To Take Risks In Order To Achieve Anything And Sometimes You Will Suffer Defeat. But The Mark Of Any Individual Is To Recover From Defeat And Disappointment And Go On And Give It His Best Shot.

When The Strongest Nation In The World Can Be Tied Up For Years In A War With No End In Sight, When The Richest Nation In The World Can't Manage Its Own Economy, When The Nation With The Greatest Tradition Of The Rule Of Law Is Plagued By Unprecedented Lawlessness, And When The President Of The United States Cannot Travel Abroad Or To Any Major City At Home Without Fear Of A Hostile Demonstration - Then It's Time For New Leadership For The United States Of America.

For Among Nations - As Within Nations - The Soundest Unity Is That Which Respects Diversity, And The Strongest Cohesion Is That Which Rejects Coercion.

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

Violence Or The Threat Of Violence [must] Never Be Permitted To Influence The Actions Or Judgments Of The University Community. Once It Does, The Community, Almost By Definition, Ceases To Be A University. It Is For This Reason That From Time Immemorial Expulsion Has Been The Primary Instrument Of University Discipline.

The One Thing Sure About Politics Is That What Goes Up Comes Down And What Goes Down Often Comes Up.

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.

I've Never Left A Game Before It Ended. You Never Know When There Could Be A Big Turnaround In The Game.

I Don't Know A Lot About Politics, But I Know A Lot About Baseball.

I Never Leave A Game Before The Last Pitch, Because In Baseball, As In Life And Especially Politics, You Never Know What Will Happen.

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 You Can Change Those Attitudes By Excellence, Personal Gut Performance.

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