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Quotes by President
"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."
34
"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
34
"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
34
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
34
"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people."
34
"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
34
"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."
34
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
34
"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."
34
"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
34
"Man is not free unless government is limited."
34
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
34
"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
34
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."
34
"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
34
"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."
34
"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course."
34
"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"
33
"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
33
"The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union."
33
"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
33
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
33
"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."
33
"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."
33
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