Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
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.
I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.
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.
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.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
I have impeached myself by resigning.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
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.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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.