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

By Richard M. Nixon
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

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

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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. History

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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. History

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

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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. History

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

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

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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.

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

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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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

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

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There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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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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The press is the enemy.

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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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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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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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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

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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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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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Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

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