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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "

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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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" 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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" Tell them to send everything that can fly. "

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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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" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "

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

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" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "

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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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" 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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" My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. "

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

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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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" Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. "

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