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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.

Richard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!
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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.
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
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The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.
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