“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.”
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
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.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.