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1722 President Quotes

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Address American AmericanPeople Difficult
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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.

America Been Before Body
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Carpet Film First First Lady
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Above Born Both Common
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There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Big Blanks Ever Happens
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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Finest Fire Go Hottest
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Another Another Way Down Find
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Application Deduction Direct Inference
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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Afterwards Always Anyhow Ask
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Dishonest Government Local Local Government
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Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Forget Man Quickly Says
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

About Anger Angry Get
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Built Center Largest Shopping
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Always America Another Because
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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.

After Another Being Bottom
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Becomes Forget He His
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Confrontation Era Let Us Move
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Finishing Gets Oblivion Olympics
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Been Deepest Ever Highest
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Found Played Politics Rules
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Figure Job Kind Lonely
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Boxes Burned Evenings Fireplace
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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.

Another Assigned Branch Doctrine
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Brought Down Impeached Myself
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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Battle Believe Campaign Continuing
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We will stop corruption and make the ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority

Stop Top Weak People
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Any Because Bureaucrats Change
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Business Cynical Dirty Politics
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Any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running for president to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity.

Lead Scores War Old
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Been Change Conflict Encouraging
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Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration.

Place Appointed Corrupt Will
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This generation of Nigerians, and, indeed the future generation, have no country other than Nigeria; we shall stay and salvage it together!

Future Stay Country Salvage
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We will be a compassionate government, for out of compassion arises the truest forms of wealth and progress a society can attain.

Attain Society Wealth Arises
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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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We shall strongly battle another form of evil that is even worse than terrorism – the evil of corruption.

Evil Worse Battle Form
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But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.

Claim Held Persons Girls
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Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police.

Small Large Tiny Fame
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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You shall be able to go to bed knowing you are safe… Insurgents would soon know the strength of the collective will of Nigerians.

Strength Safe Able Soon
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We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people – friendly and well-compensated security forces within an over – all security architecture.

Over Erect Maintain Forces
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria… God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

Total Show Stop Inside
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Religion is a personal affair. If you want to visit Mecca or Jerusalem do it with your personal funds. Sponsorship of religious pilgrimages is illegal, unconstitutional and lack of fairness.

Affair Visit Lack Funds
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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Religion must never be used as an excuse to divide us, oppress others or gain unfair advantage.

Excuse Divide Gain Unfair
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Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences. Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences.

Thank Face Saving Views
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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Proud People Display Thank
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There shall no more be a ruling party; All Progressive Congress (APC), will now be your governing party.

Party Shall Ruling Will
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You are all my people; I will treat you all as mine. I will work for those who voted for me, voted against me and those who didn’t vote at all.

Mine Work Vote Treat
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