We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
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.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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.
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.
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.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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.
