Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.