The press is the enemy.

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.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

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.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I let the American people down.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.