"When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention."
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
"Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is."
"Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
"If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement)"
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society."
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."
"The Negro says, "Now." Others say, "Never." The voice of responsible Americans says, "Together." There is no other way."
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your helpóand God's."
"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
"Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society."
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights"
"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
"I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for."
"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out."
"We Americans knowóalthough others appear to forgetóthe risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"
"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
"I greet you as the shapers of American society."
"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."