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"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."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
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"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."
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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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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."
Leadership
"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
Hate
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
Job
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Man
"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."
Anger
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
Battle
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Will
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible."
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"I let the American people down."
People
"If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?"
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