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" Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" I let the American people down. "
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" I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. "
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" Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. "
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" In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. "
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" I am not a crook. "
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" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "
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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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" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "
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" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "
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" Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. "
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" Solutions are not the answer. "
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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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" I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. "
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" The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. "
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" There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks. "
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" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "
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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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" Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. "
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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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" I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. "
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" I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. "
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" The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. "
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" If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. "
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" You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. "
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" We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped. "
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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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" Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. "
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" I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "
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" You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. "
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