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.
From Richard M. Nixon
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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