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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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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

"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."

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

"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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