The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)
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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.
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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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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)
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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.
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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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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.
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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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.
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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.
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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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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
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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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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
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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.
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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.
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon)
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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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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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