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" Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. "
Richard M. Nixon
May
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" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "
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" Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. "
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" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "
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" When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. "
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" Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. "
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" Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. "
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" People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. "
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" Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. "
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" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "
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" It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. "
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" If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. "
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" The press is the enemy. "
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" It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. "
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" Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. "
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" A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. "
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" My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. "
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" If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. "
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" Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. "
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" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "
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Man
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" At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. "
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" The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. "
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" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "
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" By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. "
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" A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. "
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