Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.