I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

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.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.