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"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."

"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."

"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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