Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.