Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.