[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.