If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
We are all the President's men.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.