Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
I am not a crook.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
I let the American people down.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
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.
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
