Richard Nixon: “We might look at the measures we take as being short-term, medium-term, and long-term.”

I have never been a quitter.

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

I firmly believe that our current fiscal situation demands national unanimity on the issues of a larger concern.

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.