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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. "

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" I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. "

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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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" My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. "

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

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" Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. "

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

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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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" 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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" A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. "

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

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" Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, 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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" 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 have impeached myself by resigning. "

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" I let the American people down. "

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" I am not a crook. "

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" If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. "

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

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

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