No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

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

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.