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

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.