If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

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

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.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.