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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? "

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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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" Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. "

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

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" 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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" The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. "

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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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" 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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" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "

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

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" The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. "

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