While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense.. These are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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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You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses.. Storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)
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You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. To Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
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I'd rather use the nuclear bomb.. Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. To Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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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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The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
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There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
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I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break in at Watergate)
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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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Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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