Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ""President Can't Swim.""
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.
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