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"People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like."

"Solutions are not the answer."

"Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work."

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

"I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided."

"Voters quickly forget what a man says."

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."

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

"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."

"If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?"

"A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning."
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"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."

"It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."

"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."

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

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