 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. |
| Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. |
| Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. |
| No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. |
| There will be no whitewash in the White House. |
| 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. |
| In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. |
| 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. |
| Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. |
| It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. |
| I am not a crook. Topics: Short |
| Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. |
| If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. |
| The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. |
| In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. |
| President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. |
| Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. |
| Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. |
| I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. |
| My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. |
