A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

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.

I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.