It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

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

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

I let the American people down.

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