If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

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.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.