[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.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

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.