Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

The sky is no longer the limit.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.