Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
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.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
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.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
