 If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. |
| It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. |
| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
| I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. |
| If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. |
| My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. |
| A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. |
| When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. |
| It sure is hell to be president. |
| I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. |
| Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. |
| You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. |
| A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. |
| In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. |
| Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. |
| Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. |
| The White House is the finest prison in the world. |
| Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. |
| I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. |
| The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. |
