“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”

“I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I...”

“Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.”

“The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.”

“Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick a...”

“I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy e...”

“An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.”

“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”