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" The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. "

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" I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. "

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Matter

" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "

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" Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. "

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" You aren't learning anything when you're talking. "

" If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. "

" The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. "

" The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "

" A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. "

" Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. "

" This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. "

" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "

" The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. "

" Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. "

" I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. "

" When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. "

" You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. "

" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "

" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "

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" To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. "

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" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

" Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. "

" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "

" The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. "

" The noblest search is the search for excellence. "

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

" This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. "

" I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. "

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" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "

" If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. "