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Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesm...
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
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The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer
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The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours
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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy
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