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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
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.
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
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.
We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
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 only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
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.
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
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 can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.
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 more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
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.
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.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
Always remember that 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.
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.