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" Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. "
Richard M. Nixon
Exist
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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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" Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. "
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" We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. "
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" If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? "
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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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" If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. "
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" 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. "
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" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. "
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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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Sleeping
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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. "
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Talk
Touch
Reality
" I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. "
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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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" I have impeached myself by resigning. "
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Impeached
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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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Same
Sword
" Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. "
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History
" A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. "
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Never
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" A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. "
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Finished
He
" The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "
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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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