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.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

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.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

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.