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" Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. "

Richard M. Nixon

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" A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. "

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" The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. "

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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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" President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. "

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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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" I let the American people down. "

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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 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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" 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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" I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "

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" Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? "

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" The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. "

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

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" I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. "

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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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" My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. "

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" Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. "

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" We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. "

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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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" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "

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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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" Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. "

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" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. "

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