Richard Nixon: “As Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, I am naming Don Rumsfeld, Congressman from Illinois.”

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…

My mother was a saint.

It is only a beginning, always.

Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.