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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally t...  
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himsel...  
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and ...  
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickl...  
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.  
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye witho...  
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.  
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.  
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.  
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem...  
Even a paranoid has some real enemies.  
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for...  
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intell...  
Highly intelligent, superbly endowed physically, [John B. Connally] lo...  
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake...  
I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind Georg...  
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist d...  
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of you...  
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should ...  
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediat...  
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere...  
In crises the most daring course is often safest.  
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the fami...  
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it s...   History
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for t...  
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.  
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an altern...  
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.  
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad rep...   Politics
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at...  
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of succes...  
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fratern...  
Nothing ever engaged him so completely that he would bring to it the s...  
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form ...  
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.  
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.  
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivi...  
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.  
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little lon...  
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.  
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, th...  
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experie...  
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling ...  
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to whe...  
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather ...  
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.  
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has...  
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or ...  
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so sm...  
We are all the President's men.  
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better ch...  
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.  
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur ...  
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize tha...  
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make...