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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.