In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
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.
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
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.
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.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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.
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.
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.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Solutions are not the answer.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
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.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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.
