"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself"
"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue"
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion"
"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"
"Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet"
"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"
"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"
"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it"
"Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist"
"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"
"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports"
"I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get"
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate"
"I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning"
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle"
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire"
"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"
"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press"
