We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must recognize their ecological significance and preserve them as sources of inspiration and education. And we need them as places of quiet refuge and reflection.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

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.

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

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.