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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#government #honest men #local #local government #men

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#blanks #ever #happens #i #know

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#better things #blown #by the time #come #dressed

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#any #change #control #destiny #direction

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conduct #hair #his #length #person

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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