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

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.

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.