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" Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. "

" 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. "

" If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. "

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" I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. "

" If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? "

" 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. "

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

" I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. "

" 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. "

" Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. "

" You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. "

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

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

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" If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. "

" Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. "

" Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. "