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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. Richard M. Nixon

You Recording Leader Say Russian Someone Glad Never Know Kremlin Tape Being

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

Mathematics Sympathy Philosophy Direct Learn Inference Intercourse Deduction Application

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. Richard M. Nixon

History Watergate See More Wrong Clearly Dealing Acting Now

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

Decision Own Think Presidents Bad My Own Johnson Purposes Part Taping Historical Done Conversations Should View Kennedy

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon

Politics You Silver Finishing Oblivion Gets Second Olympics

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

Character You Defeat Develop Learn Got Survive To Survive

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

Me Memory Sky First First Lady White White House President Frame Carpet Lawn Scene Red Red Carpet New Like House His Forever Green Lady Frozen Moment Film

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. Richard M. Nixon

Myself Down Brought Impeached Resigning

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. Richard M. Nixon

Government Black Nation White Programs Black Americans More Colony Perpetuate Government Programs Than American Dependency Want Which

There will be no whitewash in the White House. Richard M. Nixon

Will White White House House

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. Richard M. Nixon

Government Home Problem Too Much Long Every Too Must Mistaken Answer Dialogue Dominated Bigger Public Much Notion Ever Reject

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

Today Hair Concern His Conduct Person Length

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. Richard M. Nixon

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan

Christmas Home Will Country Spend Stripes Silly About Parking Could Put Talking How Still Years Pave Vietnam Many Whole

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. Ronald Reagan

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. Ronald Reagan

Environmental Government Waiting State Statement Indiana Impact Federal Federal Government Had Putting Around Still Been His Hand Creator Here

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. Ronald Reagan

Saying Good Law Doors Live No Law Someone Laws Price Open He Open Doors Get May Who Harlem Need

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts. Ronald Reagan

Security New Greatest Israel Create

How can a president not be an actor? Ronald Reagan

President How Actor

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. Ronald Reagan

Best You People Problem Country Sleeping Say More Had Times Maybe Might Choice Who Even Homeless Found Now Aware

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