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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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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