"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"
"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've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read"
"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course"
"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"
"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"
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy"
