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

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

I let the American people down.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.