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" I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" 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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" 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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" Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. "

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

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

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

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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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" I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. "

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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 brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "

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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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" 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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" The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer. "

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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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" I let the American people down. "

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" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "

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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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" 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'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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" Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. "

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

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" Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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