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.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.