Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while Socialism sounds better than it works.
Defeat doesn't finish a man- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
From a personal standpoint, what I would prefer to be remembered for is the example I set for surviving and coming back from adversity.
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.
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.
I reject the cynical view that politics is inevitably, or even usually, a dirty business.
I would have made a good Pope.
I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country.
If being a liberal means federalizing everything, then I'm no liberal. If being a conservative means turning back the clock; denying problems that exist, then I'm no conservative.
In a crisis, the character of a man... will make the difference.
(Congratulating the crew of Apollo 13).
(Congratulating the crew of Apollo 13).
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Politics is like the stock market: it's a bad business for people who can't afford to lose.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
Solutions are not the answer.
Sometimes at the end of the day when I'm smiling and shaking hands, I want to kick them.
The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Samson's time.
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
The trouble with most conservatives is that those who have brains lack guts and those who have guts lack brains.
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Well, when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.
You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the President of the United States can have.
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