"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."

"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."

"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."

"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction."

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"The reward of suffering is experience."

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases."

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."

"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."

"To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I."

"The White House is the finest prison in the world."

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."

"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

"A President cannot always be popular."

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."

"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"Study men, not historians."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."

"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."