Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The press is the enemy.

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.