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'environment' Is Not An Abstract Concern, Or Simply A Matter Of Aesthetics, Or Of Personal Taste - Although It Can And Should Involve These As Well. Man Is Shaped To A Great Extent By His Surroundings. Our Physical Nature, Our Mental Health, Our Culture And Institutions, Our Opportunities For Challenge And Fulfillment, Our Very Survival - All Of These Are Directly Related To And Affected By The Environment In Which We Live. They Depend Upon The Continued Healthy Functioning Of The Natural Systems Of The Earth.

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'environment' Is Not An Abstract Concern, Or Simply A Matter Of Aesthetics, Or Of Personal Taste - Although It Can And Should Involve These As Well. Man Is Shaped To A Great Extent By His Surroundings. Our Physical Nature, Our Mental Health, Our Culture And Institutions, Our Opportunities For Challenge And Fulfillment, Our Very Survival - All Of These Are Directly Related To And Affected By The Environment In Which We Live. They Depend Upon The Continued Healthy Functioning Of The Natural Systems Of The Earth.

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Television Watching

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You Must Pursue This Investigation Of Watergate Even If It Leads To The President. I'm Innocent. You've Got To Believe I'm Innocent. If You Don't, Take My Job.

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Our Souls Speak From Across The Miles, Intertwined, You And I.

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Geography And History

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Failure Isn't Falling Down. Failure Is Not Getting Up After You Have Fallen Down.

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I Was Under Medication When I Made The Decision To Burn The Tapes.

I Would Not Like To Be A Political Leader In Russia. They Never Know When They're Being Taped.

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History, You Can't Get Out.

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Clarity Of Purpose

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The Three Most Difficult Words To Speak Are, "i Was Wrong."

I'm Not Going To Be The First American President To Lose A War.

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There Are Times When An Abortion Is Necessary. I Know That. When You Have A Black And A White.

The Lesson Of All History Warns Us That We Should Negotiate Only When Our Military Superiority Is So Convincing That We Can Achieve Our Objective At The Conference Table, And Deny The Aggressor Theirs.

While Technically I Did Not Commit A Crime, An Impeachable Offense... These Are Legalisms, As Far As The Handling Of This Matter Is Concerned; It Was So Botched Up, I Made So Many Bad Judgments. The Worst Ones, Mistakes Of The Heart, Rather Than The Head. But Let Me Say, A Man In That Top Job - He's Got To Have A Heart, But His Head Must Always Rule His Heart.

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The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

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Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty.

Great Presidents

The Only Time In The History Of The World That We Have Had Any Extended Periods Of Peace Is When There Has Been A Balance Of Power. It Is When One Nation Becomes Infinitely More Powerful In Relation To Its Potential Competitors That The Danger Of War Arises.

I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.

Communism Starts With The Proposition That There Are No Universal Truths Or General Truths Of Human Nature.

The Important Thing Is That We Maintain Plausible Deniability.

Important Things

When The President Does It, That Means That It's Not Illegal.

Any Change Is Resisted Because Bureaucrats Have A Vested Interest In The Chaos In Which They Exist.

In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

Tonight - To You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americans - I Ask For Your Support.

You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are Not When You Are On Top Of The World, But When The World Is On Top Of You.

Top Of The World

It Is Necessary For Me To Establish A Winner Image. Therefore, I Have To Beat Somebody.

I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.

I Seriously Doubt If We Will Ever Have Another War. This Is Probably The Very Last One.

To Me, The Most Unhappy People In The World Are The People ... In Palm Beach- Going To Parties Every Night. Playing Golf Every Afternoon, Then Bridge. [they Have] No Purpose.

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family.

I Have The Greatest Affection For Them But I Know They're Not Going To Make It For 500 Years. They Aren't. You Know It, Too. The Mexicans Are A Different Cup Of Tea. They Have A Heritage. At The Present Time They Steal, They're Dishonest, But They Do Have Some Concept Of Family Life. They Don't Live Like A Bunch Of Dogs, Which The Negroes Do Live Like.

I Took A Look Around The Office. ... I Walked Out And Closed The Door Behind Me. I Knew That I Would Not Be Back There Again." (on Leaving The Executive Office Building)

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

I Got Into A Few Games After They Were Hopelessly Won Or Hopelessly Lost, You Know, When They Put The Substitutes In, And Finally The Water Boy, And Then Me. That Is The Way It Worked.

The Soviet Union Began By Banishing God. The United States Began As A Community Of People Who Wanted To Worship God As They Chose. . . Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Those In The United States Whose Desire To Create A Strictly Secular Society Is As Strong As Lenin's Was Should Study This Cold War Lesson Closely. Communism Was Defeated By An Alliance Spearheaded By 'one Nation Under God.'

Under The Doctrine Of 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.

While Might Certainly Does Not Make Right, Neither Does Right By Itself Make Might.

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.

I Let The American People Down, And I Have To Carry That Burden For The Rest Of My Life. My Political Life Is Over. I Will Never Again Have An Opportunity To Serve In Any Official Position. Maybe I Can Give A Little Advice From Time To Time.

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I Hereby Resign This Office Of President Of The United States.

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With All The Power That A President Has, The Most Important Thing To Bear In Mind Is This: You Must Not Give Power To A Man Unless, Above Everything Else, He Has Character. Character Is The Most Important Qualification The President Of The United States Can Have.

Why Would Anyone Want To Be President Today? The Answer Is Not One Of Glory, Or Fame; Today The Burdens Of The Office Outweigh Its Privileges. Its Not Because The Presidency Offers A Chance To Be Somebody, But Because It Offers A Chance To Do Something.

We, This Nation Of Ours, Could Be The Richest Nation In The World. We Could Be The Freest Nation In The World - But Only If The Arts Are Alive And Flourishing Can We Experience The True Meaning Of Our Freedom, And Know The Full Glory Of The Human Spirit.

It Is Not Enough Just To Be For Peace. The Point Is, What Can We Do About It?

I Was Not Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed To Be Untrue.

We Must Never Forget That If The War In Vietnam Is Lost ... The Right Of Free Speech Will Be Extinguished Throughout The World.

Watergate Had Become The Center Of The Media's Universe, And During The Remaining Year Of My Presidency The Media Tried To Force Everything Else To Revolve Around It.

The President Wants Me To Argue That He Is As Powerful A Monarch As Louis Xiv, Only Four Years At A Time, And Is Not Subject To The Processes Of Any Court In The Land Except The Court Of Impeachment.

Don't Get The Impression That You Arouse My Anger. You See, One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects.

What Starts The Process, Really, Are Laughs And Slights And Snubs When You Are A Kid. If Your Anger Is Deep Enough And Strong Enough, You Learn That You Can Change Those Attitudes By Excellence, Personal Gut Performance.

I Want A Goddamn Strong Statement On Marijuana, I Mean One That Just Tears The Ass Out Of Them. You Know, Its A Funny Thing, Every One Of The Bastards That Are Out For Legalizing Marijuana Is Jewish.

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.

At Home, We Must Reject The Mistaken Notion - A Notion That Has Dominated Too Much Of The Public Dialogue For Too Long - That Ever Bigger Government Is The Answer To Every Problem.

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