"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."

"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."

"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."

"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."

"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

"Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

"The White House is the finest prison in the world."

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."

"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

"Don't ever let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."

"If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices."

"Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?"

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want."

"From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying."

"Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid."

"I apologize for my terrible interview skills."

"I am not a public speaker and never will be."

"Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff."

"Wen I die, my money is not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious and keep smiling like the joker"

"You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are."

"You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess."

"You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry."

"When I first started acting, I was just crap."

"There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned."