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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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" 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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" 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've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. "

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" Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. "

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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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" 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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" When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. "

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" As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. "

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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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" 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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" 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 brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "

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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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" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

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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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" Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. "

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

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