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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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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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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.

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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

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I have impeached myself by resigning.

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I let the American people down.

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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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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

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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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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.

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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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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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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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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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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

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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.

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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 American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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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.

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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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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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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

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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.

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Solutions are not the answer.

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When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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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 played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

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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.

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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