"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentleman, this is my last press conference." "I am not a crook!" "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." "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 thing." "If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?" "Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." "Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits." "Oh that was just an accident that happened." [on why one of the Watergate tapes had 18 minutes erased] "Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do." "When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal." "We can't learn from one another, until we stop shouting at one another...until our words can be heard." "I had never been a quitter."