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.
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.
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.
The press is the enemy.
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.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
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.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Solutions are not the answer.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
