People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.