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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

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

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

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.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

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

Solutions are not the answer.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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

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 press is the enemy.

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.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

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.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

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.

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.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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.

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.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

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

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

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

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

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

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

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.