As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

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.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.