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

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

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.

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.