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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. (Richard Nixon)
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. View quote
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. View quote
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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. View quote
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. View quote
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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. View quote
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. View quote
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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. View quote
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. View quote
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. View quote
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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. (Richard Nixon)
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. View quote
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I let the American people down. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. View quote
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. View quote
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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. View quote
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. (Richard Nixon)
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. View quote
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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