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"the president seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock." »Sam Ervin
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"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)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"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." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis." »John Dean
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"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"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." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"the office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." »Jimmy Breslin
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"'Good luck, Mr president,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval office.'" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president." »Alexander Meigs Haig
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"I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. then somehow I get myself elected president." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)" »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"the man with the best job in the country is the Vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the president'" »Will Rogers
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"When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president" »Henry Kissinger
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it." »John Dean
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"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." »Vera Brittaiin
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"the best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." »Johnny Carson
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"I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself." »Arthur W. Radford
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"the single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway
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"As president Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and president Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing." »Golda Meir
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"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." »Scott Adams
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"the salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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