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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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. "

" Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "

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

" 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. "

" What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. "

" You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. "

" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. "

" People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. "

" 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. "

" Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. "

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

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" The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "

" In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "