I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.