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

The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

I'm not a lovable man.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.