In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

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.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.