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“I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.”
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“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
Anger“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.”
History“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
Sympathy“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”
Truth“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.”
Government“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
History“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”
Age“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
Politics“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.”
Change“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
Government“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
Politics“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
History“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
History“As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.”
Peace“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
Music“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.”
Anger“People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.”
Fear“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.”
Anger“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.”
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