Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
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.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore I have to beat somebody.
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.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
People react to fear not love they don't teach that in Sunday School but it's true.
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.
I can take it. The tougher it gets the cooler I get.
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.