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| "The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker." | ||
| "Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do." | ||
| "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. " | ||
| "Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. " | ||
| "I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided. " | ||
| "I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning." | ||
| "I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports." | ||
| "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. " | ||
| "I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. " | ||
| "I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. " | ||
| "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. " | ||
| "It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope. " | ||
| "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." | ||
| "Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. " | ||
| "Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents." | ||
| "Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. " | ||
| "Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?" | ||
| "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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| "You won't have
Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press
conference. " |
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