The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

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.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.