Richard Nixon: “Increasing social security benefits is essential, as I have said many times.”

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

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

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