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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" 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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" If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. "

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" As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. "

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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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" 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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" Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. "

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" I have impeached myself by resigning. "

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" We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. "

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" I am not a crook. "

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" Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. "

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" I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. "

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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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" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "

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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. "

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" I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed 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 tomorrow. "

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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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" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "

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" Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. "

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" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "

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" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "

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