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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

Talk

Touch

Reality

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Well

Good

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Crook

I Am

" I have impeached myself by resigning. "

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

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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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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Negotiation

Confrontation

" 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. "

" 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. "