After a third of a century of power flowing from the people and the States to Washington it is time for a New Federalism in which power, funds, and responsibility will flow from Washington to the States and to the people.

[ Welcoming back the crew of Apollo 11 from the first moon landing :] This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

[ Quoting a sign held up by a young girl on the campaign trail :] Bring us together again.

What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream.

[ After being defeated for governor of California :] You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

Pat [his wife] doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the “get rich quick books are those who write them.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.