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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
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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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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
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The press is the enemy.
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The sky is no longer the limit.
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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
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Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
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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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