My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

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.

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