I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right

He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You’ll see; he’ll do something wrong in the end. He always does.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.