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" At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. "

Richard M. Nixon

Government

Answer

Problem

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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. "

" I let the American people down. "

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" I am not a crook. "

Richard M. Nixon

Crook

I Am

" 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. "

" Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. "

" 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. "

Richard M. Nixon

Always

Performance

" I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. "

" I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. "

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

Richard M. Nixon

Defeated

Finished

" There will be no whitewash in the White House. "

" 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. "

" A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. "

" I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. "