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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.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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.

I let the American people down.

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.

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

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

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.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

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

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

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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.

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

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.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have impeached myself by resigning.

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

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.

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

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

The press is the enemy.

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.

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