Richard M. Nixon
Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.Collection: Fighting
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.Collection: Country
Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.Collection: Military
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.Collection: War
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.Collection: Loyalty
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.Collection: Broken
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.Collection: Geography And History
My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!Collection: Moon
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.Collection: Country
I'm not a lovable man.Collection: Men
I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.Collection: Dog
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Collection: Change
I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.Collection: People
If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.Collection: Inspirational Life
I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.Collection: Believe
If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.Collection: Feelings
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.Collection: Years
The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.Collection: Healing
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.Collection: Congratulations
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.Collection: Jobs
Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.Collection: Writing
In our own lives, let each of us ask — not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself? In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask —not just how can government help, but how can I help?Collection: Government
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.Collection: Meaningful
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.Collection: Rose
When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.Collection: Vision
...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.Collection: Growth
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.Collection: War
We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.Collection: Nuclear
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.Collection: Arms
There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.Collection: Color
Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.Collection: Politics
Bring us together again.Collection: Together Again
The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.Collection: Powerful
What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.Collection: Presidential
Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.Collection: Science
I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this countryCollection: Country
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.Collection: Simple
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)Collection: Art
[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.Collection: War
Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.Collection: Moon
The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.Collection: Powerful
Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.Collection: Memorial Day
Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.Collection: War
If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.Collection: Inspirational
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.Collection: War
I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.Collection: Funny
Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.Collection: Helping Others
No failure is final unless you ratify it.Collection: Finals
Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.Collection: Pay