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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quit...  
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.  
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has mi...  
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as...  
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning...  
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garde...  
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in t...  
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what t...  
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoeve...  
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few spe...  
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's ...   History
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of t...  
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps...  
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he...  
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can on...  
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.  
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in ...  
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the peopl...  
Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me.  
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a pro...  
I am not a crook.  
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the b...  
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.  
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisivel...   History
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...  
I concede!  
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competit...  
I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.  
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with rel...  
I had come so far from the little house in Yorba Linda to this great h...  
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition ...  
I have impeached myself by resigning.  
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is complet...  
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.  
I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to c...  
I let the American people down.  
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.  
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.  
I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others sh...  
I took a look around the office. I walked out and closed the door behi...  
I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White H...  
I want you to stonewall it.  
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of win...  
I would have made a good Pope.  
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't ...  
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. Yo...  
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable of...  
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad carto...  
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that me...  
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid rema...  
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character ...  
If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And...  
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest ...  
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the w...   Equality
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of m...   History
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate wh...  
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free mys...  
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have ...   History
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civil...  
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop...  
It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a m...  
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.  
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or o...  
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with hi...  
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes wa...  
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big pr...  
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do...  
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a pres...  
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.  
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. ...  
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon....  
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam Wa...  
Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.  
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's ...  
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.  
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how mag...  
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influen...  
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Wel...  
People in the media say they must look at the president with a microsc...  
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead."  
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing...  
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddam...  
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in sma...  
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.  
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presi...  
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on t...  
Solutions are not the answer.  
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishon...  
Tell them to send everything that can fly.  
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, print...  
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his ...  
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.  
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is...  
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen...  
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a pub...  
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and ...  
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.  
The press is the enemy.  
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, ...  
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are ...   History
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is...  
There will be no whitewash in the White House.  
They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked li...  
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left t...  
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creati...  
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destro...  
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask...  
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the pr...  
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he c...  
Voters quickly forget what a man says.  
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during th...  
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it w...  
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another...  
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of math...  
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not becau...  
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?  
What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?  
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when...  
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can'...  
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going th...  
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.  
When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the ...  
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly ...  
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to th...   History
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around abou...  
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this ...  
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop chara...