It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.