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Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.
I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.
It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.
The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.
They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.
If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.
Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.