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)

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.