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People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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 let the American people down.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
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.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
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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.
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.
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.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
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.
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.
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.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
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.
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.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
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.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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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.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
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.
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.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
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.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
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.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
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 can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
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.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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.
Solutions are not the answer.
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
I let the American people down.
The press is the enemy.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
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.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
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.
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.
The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
I have impeached myself by resigning.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
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