Richard Milhouse Nixon

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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)"	Miscellaneous
"So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance."	Sin, Time
"It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it."	Miscellaneous
"Once you're in the stream of history you can't get out."	History
"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit … The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose."	Age, Change, Learning
"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, Art, Attitude
"I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now."	Miscellaneous
"'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'"	Age, Evil, Knowledge
"Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much."	Men
"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"	America, Art, Decision-Making
"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team." (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)"	Friends
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."	Law
"I let the American people down."	America
"I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Law, Memory, Men
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."	America, History, Memory
"When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned."	Retirement
"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it."	Miscellaneous
"My view is that one should not break up a winning combination."	Miscellaneous
"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."	Desires, Leadership, Wants
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