My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises -- those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time -- it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

There may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.