I let the American people down.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
I was born in the house my father built.
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, perso...
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.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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.
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.
only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home
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.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
To write a novel, you need an iron butt.
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.
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 hi...
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...
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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.