Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.