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.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

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

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!