Richard Nixon: “What the Soviet Union needs in terms of military preparedness is different from what we need.”

I have never been a quitter.

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

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.