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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
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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.
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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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The press is the enemy.
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There will be no whitewash in the White House.
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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
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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.
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
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.
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I let the American people down.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
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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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.
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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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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
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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Tell them to send everything that can fly.
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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.
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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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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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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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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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.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
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.
Written by Richard M. Nixon

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