My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."