For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

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

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

I let the American people down.

In our own lives, let each of us ask — not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself? In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask —not just how can government help, but how can I help?

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.