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.
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.
I am not a crook.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
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.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.