Richard Nixon

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• You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.

• When the president does it that means that it is not illegal

• When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.

• Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government

• True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

• The President can bomb anybody he likes.

• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

• I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them

• I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

• I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook

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