American - President | January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon
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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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I have impeached myself by resigning.
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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.
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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.
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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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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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.
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
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Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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