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Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

– Henry Kissinger

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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

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The essence of this man -- Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.

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The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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We are all the President's men.

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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

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When you meet the President you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor, much less President?

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The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities.

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If conflict is permitted to run unconstrained, the outcome could be even worse than it was in Europe, world War I broke out because of a relatively minor crisis ... and today the weapons are more powerful.

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I refused on the grounds that nobody should get special treatment.

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Found on FOX News 6 years ago

Nixon was the architect.

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Found on FOX News 9 years ago

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