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But Above All, What This Congress Can Be Remembered For Is Opening The Way To A New American Revolutiona Peaceful Revolution In Which Power Was Turned Back To The Peoplein Which Government At All Levels Was Refreshed And Renewed And Made Truly Responsive. This Can Be A Revolution As Profound, As Far-reaching, As Exciting As That First Revolution Almost 200 Years Agoand It Can Mean That Just 5 Years From Now America Will Enter Its Third Century As A Young Nation New In Spirit, With All The Vigor And The Freshness With Which It Began Its First Century.

-Richard M. Nixon

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But Above All, What This Congress Can Be Remembered For Is Opening The Way To A New American Revolutiona Peaceful Revolution In Which Power Was Turned Back To The Peoplein Which Government At All Levels Was Refreshed And Renewed And Made Truly Responsive. This Can Be A Revolution As Profound, As Far-reaching, As Exciting As That First Revolution Almost 200 Years Agoand It Can Mean That Just 5 Years From Now America Will Enter Its Third Century As A Young Nation New In Spirit, With All The Vigor And The Freshness With Which It Began Its First Century.

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Unpredictability

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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.

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Let Us Move From The Era Of Confrontation To The Era Of Negotiation.

Look At The Justice Department, It's Full Of Jews...the Lawyers In Government Are Damn Jews.

I'm Not At Liberty To Discuss The Governments Knowledge Of Extraterrestrial Ufo's At This Time. I Am Still Personally Being Briefed On The Subject!

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Screw State! State's Always On The Side Of The Blacks. The Hell With Them!

You Must Never Give Up. You Must Remember That You Have To Take Risks In Order To Achieve Anything And Sometimes You Will Suffer Defeat. But The Mark Of Any Individual Is To Recover From Defeat And Disappointment And Go On And Give It His Best Shot.

There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

I Don't Give A Damn About The Civilians.

I Doubt If Any Of Them Would Even Intentionally Double-park.

It Is Not Enough Just To Be For Peace. The Point Is, What Can We Do About It?

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Finishing Second In The Olympics Gets You Silver. Finishing Second In Politics Gets You Oblivion.

I Have The Greatest Affection For Them But I Know They're Not Going To Make It For 500 Years. They Aren't. You Know It, Too. The Mexicans Are A Different Cup Of Tea. They Have A Heritage. At The Present Time They Steal, They're Dishonest, But They Do Have Some Concept Of Family Life. They Don't Live Like A Bunch Of Dogs, Which The Negroes Do Live Like.

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Our Souls Speak From Across The Miles, Intertwined, You And I.

Since I Have Never One A Debate Let Me Tell You How Not To Lose One.

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Geography And History

The Jawbone Of An Ass Is Just As Dangerous A Weapon Today As In Sampson's Time.

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This Is A Great Day For France!

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There Is No Such Thing As A Nonpolitical Speech By A Politician.

You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore, Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.

When The Death Of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Thrust Him Suddenly Into The Presidency In April Of 1945 At One Of The Most Critical Moments Of Our History, He Met That Moment With Courage And Vision. His Farsighted Leadership In The Postwar Era Has Helped Ever Since To Preserve Peace And Freedom In The World.

Any Change Is Resisted Because Bureaucrats Have A Vested Interest In The Chaos In Which They Exist.

If Some Of My Judgments Were Wrong - And Some Were Wrong - They Were Made In What I Believed At The Time To Be The Best Interest Of The Nation.

I Would Rather Be A One-term President And Do What I Believe Is Right Than To Be A Two-term President At The Cost Of Seeing America Become A Second-race Power And To See This Nation Accept The First Defeat In Its Proud 190-year History.

In Ancient Days, Men Looked At Stars And Saw Their Heroes In The Constellations. In Modern Times, We Do Much The Same, But Our Heroes Are Epic Men Of Flesh And Blood.

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.

The Color Of Communism Was Not Red But Gray.

The Environmental Agenda Before The Congress Includes Laws To Deal With Water Pollution, Pesticide Hazards, Ocean Dumping, Excessive Noise, Careless Land Development And Many Other Environmental Problems. These Problems Will Not Stand Still For Politics Or For Partisanship.

Let Us Remember That The Main Purpose Of American Aid Is Not To Help Other Nations, But To Help Ourselves.

The Only Time In The History Of The World That We Have Had Any Extended Periods Of Peace Is When There Has Been A Balance Of Power. It Is When One Nation Becomes Infinitely More Powerful In Relation To Its Potential Competitors That The Danger Of War Arises.

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

Nothing Is More Priceless And More Worthy Of Preservation Than The Rich Array Of Animal Life With Which Our Country Has Been Blessed. It Is A Many-faceted Treasure, Of Value To Scholars, Scientists, And Nature Lovers Alike, And It Forms A Vital Part Of The Heritage We All Share As Americans.

Let Us Begin By Committing Ourselves To The Truth To See It Like It Is, And Tell It Like It Is, To Find The Truth, To Speak The Truth, And To Live The Truth.

I Hereby Resign This Office Of President Of The United States.

If You Take No Risks, You Will Suffer No Defeats. But If You Take No Risks, You Win No Victories.

The Presidency Has Many Problems, But Boredom Is The Least Of Them.

Until He Has Been Part Of A Cause Larger Than Himself, No Man Is Truly Whole.

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