The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.