I let the American people down.

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

As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

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

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)