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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#better #builds #competitive #i #know

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#blunt #candid #confidentiality #containing #different

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#i #i always #more #performance #point

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#earned #everything #got #i #know

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#born #both #common #fact #fortunate

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#film #first #first lady #forever #frame

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#assigned #branch #doctrine #executive #exercises

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. ↗

— William Congreve

#education #enough #gentleman #little #pedantic

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#become #center #during #else #everything

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn