Checkers Speech Quotes

#1. Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

Ronald Kessler

#2. Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

Chen Shui-bian

#3. I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

Andy Roddick

#4. What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Euripides

#5. If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer

#7. He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Dorothy Parker

#8. I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

George Matthew Adams

#9. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Anne Frank

#10. You know," he laughed easily, "with all the goddam drinkin' Ah've done, Ah still can't remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.

Norman Mailer

#11. a genius of means, barren of ends

Perry Anderson

#12. Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Eartha Kitt

#13. I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent.

Lindsey Graham

#14. A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances.

Thomas R. Insel

#15. I'm not sorry," Kami told him. "I wouldn't go back to a time before we were born, make it right, and lose you. I wouldn't be me without you. I wouldn't, I never want to... Lose you.

Sarah Rees Brennan