I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The buck stops here!

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.