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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. "

Richard M. Nixon

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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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" Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. "

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

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" The press is the enemy. "

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" Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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 think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. "

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

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

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

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" I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. "

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

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

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

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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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" Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. "

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" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "

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

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