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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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Always
More
Performance
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" My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. "
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" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "
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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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" 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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" If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. "
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" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "
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" I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. "
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" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "
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" The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. "
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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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" 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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" At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. "
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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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Mathematics
Learn
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" Solutions are not the answer. "
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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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Born
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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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" I am not a crook. "
Richard M. Nixon
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I Am
" I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. "
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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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Candid
Always
Office
" Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. "
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Live
Truth
Tell
" A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. "
Richard M. Nixon
Defeated
Finished
He
" When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. "
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Means
Illegal
Does
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Memory
Sky
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" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "
Richard M. Nixon
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" I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "
Richard M. Nixon
Myself
Down
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" You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. "
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" 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. "
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" I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. "
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Great
Face
City
" 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. "
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History
Change
Great
" The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. "
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