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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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