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"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
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"Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support."
"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."
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press."
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