Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.