After Nixon resigned in 1974 he engaged in a very aggressive war with history attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily history won largely because of Nixon's tapes.

In the tumult of men and events solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America I am outraged.

Nor is it the least advantage to health accruing from such a way of life that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice than persons who live in crowded society.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health which never happened.

Because we spoke so loudly opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

No way no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.