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Fate Has Ordained That The Men Who Went To The Moon To Explore In Peace Will Stay On The Moon To Rest In Peace. These Brave Men, Neil Armstrong And Edwin Aldrin, Know That There Is No Hope For Their Recovery. But They Also Know That There Is Hope For Mankind In Their Sacrifice.

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Richard M. Nixon

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Fate Has Ordained That The Men Who Went To The Moon To Explore In Peace Will Stay On The Moon To Rest In Peace. These Brave Men, Neil Armstrong And Edwin Aldrin, Know That There Is No Hope For Their Recovery. But They Also Know That There Is Hope For Mankind In Their Sacrifice.

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I Played By The Rules Of Politics As I Found Them.

My Strong Point, If I Have A Strong Point, Is Performance. I Always Do More Than I Say. I Always Produce More Than I Promise.

We Must Recognize That The Goal Of A Cleaner Environment Will Not Be Achieved By Rhetoric Or Moral Dedication Alone. It Will Not Be Cheap Or Easy And The Costs Will Have To Be Borne By Each Citizen, Consumer And Taxpayer. How Clean Is Clean Enough Can Only Be Answered In Terms Of How Much We Are Willing To Pay And How Soon We Seek Success... It Is Simplistic To Seek Ecological Perfection At The Cost Of Bankrupting The Very Tax-paying Enterprises Which Must Pay For The Social Advances We Seek.

The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going To Be Bombed This Time.

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People Should Not Have To Pay For Pollution They Do Not Cause.

Nothing Would Please The Kremlin More Than To Have The People Of This Country Choose A Second Rate President.

Economic Power Is Not The Same As Strength Of National Character. Our Country May Be Rich In Goods, But We Are Poor In Spirit.

Your Mind Must Always Go, Even While You're Shaking Hands And Going Through All The Maneuvers. I Developed The Ability Long Ago To Do One Thing While Thinking About Another.

For Years Politicians Have Promised The Moon. I'm The First One To Be Able To Deliver It.

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.

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They Say It's The Responsibility Of The Media To Look At Government - Especially The President - With A Microscope. I Don't Argue With That, But When They Use A Proctoscope, It's Going Too Far.

I Never Leave A Game Before The Last Pitch, Because In Baseball, As In Life And Especially Politics, You Never Know What Will Happen.

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As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

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...because There Are No Local Or State Boundaries To The Problems Of Our Environment, The Federal Government Must Play An Active, Positive Role. We Can And Will Set Standards. We Can And Will Exercise Leadership.

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Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History You Can't Get Out. You Can Drown. Or You Can Be Pulled Ashore By The Tide. But It Is Awfully Hard To Get Out When You Are In The Middle Of The Stream -- If It Is Intended That You Stay There.

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They Put The Jewish Interest Above America's Interest And It's About Goddamn Time That The Jew In America Realizes He's An American First And A Jew Second.

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I Can Take It. The Tougher It Gets, The Cooler I Get.

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But Also Out Here In This Dreary, Difficult War, I Think History Will Record That This May Have Been One Of Americas Finest Hours, Because We Took A Difficult Task And We Succeeded.

Communism Denies God, Enslaves Men, And Destroys Justice.

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History, You Can't Get Out.

I Always Remember That Whatever I Have Done In The Past Or May Do In The Future, Duke University Is Responsible In One Way Or Another.

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

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If, When The Chips Are Down, The Worlds Most Powerful Nation, The United States Of America, Acts Like A Pitiful, Helpless Giant, The Forces Of Totalitarianism And Anarchy Will Threaten Free Nations And Free Institutions Throughout The World.

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I Was Not Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed To Be Untrue.

Idealism Without Realism Is Impotent. Realism Without Idealism Is Immoral.

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We Are All In It Together. This Is A War. We Take A Few Shots And It Will Be Over. We Will Give Them A Few Shots And It Will Be Over.

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Well, I'm Not A Crook.

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

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Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.

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The Press Is The Enemy.

I'll Speak For The Man, Or Against Him, Whichever Will Do Him The Most Good.

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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!

Castro Couldn't Even Go To The Bathroom Unless The Soviet Union Put The Nickel In The Toilet.

There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

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If An Individual Wants To Be A Leader And Isn't Controversial, That Means He Never Stood For Anything.

Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty.

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Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

If The President Does It, It Can't Be Illegal.

With All Our Differences, Whenever We Are Confronted With A Threat To Our Security We Are Not Then Republicans Or Democrats But Americans; We Are Not Then The Fifty States But The United States.

You Want A Wife Who Is Intelligent, But Not Too Intelligent.

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Solutions Are Not The Answer.

We Should Set Goals Within The Limits Of Our Resources While Working To The Limits Of Our Powers.

There Are Some Instances Where You May Be Ahead Of Us, For Example, In The Development Of The Thrust Of Your Rockets For The Investigation Of Outer Space; There May Be Some Instances In Which We Are Ahead Of You--in Color Television, For Instance.

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

Americans Admire A People Who Can Scratch A Desert And Produce A Garden. The Israelis Have Shown Qualities That Americans Identify With: Guts, Patriotism, Idealism, A Passion For Freedom. I Have Seen It. I Know. I Believe That.

This Is The Greatest Week In The History Of The World Since The Creation, Because As A Result Of What Happened In This Week, The World Is Bigger, Infinitely.

The Pakistanis Are Straightforward And Sometimes Extremely Stupid. The Indians Are More Devious, Sometimes So Smart That We Fall For Their Line.

If We Take The Route Of The Permanent Handout, The American Character Will Itself Be Impoverished.

I Don't Mind The Homosexuality. I Understand It. Nevertheless, Goddamn, I Don't Think You Glorify It On Public Television, Homosexuality, Even More Than You Glorify Whores. We All Know We Have Weaknesses. But, Goddammit, What Do You Think That Does To Kids? You Know What Happened To The Greeks! Homosexuality Destroyed Them. Sure, Aristotle Was A Homo. We All Know That. So Was Socrates.

The One Thing Sure About Politics Is That What Goes Up Comes Down And What Goes Down Often Comes Up.

The Ultimate Test Of A Nation's Character Is Not How It Responds To Adversity In War But How It Meets The Challenge Of Peace.

We Are Not Spending The Federal Government's Money, We Are Spending The Taxpayer's Money, And It Must Be Spent N A Way Which Guarantees His Money's Worth And Yields The Fullest Possible Benefit To The People Being Helped.

For Its Part, Government Will Listen. We Will Strive To Listen In New Ways - To The Voices Of Quiet Anguish, To Voices That Speak Without Words, The Voices Of The Heart, To The Injured Voices, And The Anxious Voices, And The Voices That Have Despaired Of Being Heard.

It's Long Been Common Practice Among Many To Draw A Distinction Between "human Rights" And "property Rights," Suggesting That The Two Are Separate And Unequal - With "property Rights" Second To "human Rights."

It Is Necessary For Me To Establish A Winner Image. Therefore, I Have To Beat Somebody.

I'm Not A Crook. I've Earned Everything I've Got.

Those Few Days After Kent State Were Among The Darkest Of My Presidency.

The Chinese Use Two Brush Strokes To Write The Word "crisis." One Brush Stroke Stands For Danger; The Other For Opportunity.

Positive Thinking

I'm Not Going To Be The First American President To Lose A War.

I Like The Job I Have, But If I Had To Live My Life Over Again, I Would Like To Have Ended Up A Sports Writer.

Our Peaceful Borders And Our Peaceful History Are Important Symbols, To Be Sure. What They Symbolize, However, Is The Spirit Of Respect And Restraint Which Allow Us To Cooperate, Despite Our Differences, In Way Which Help Us Both.

Once One Determines That He Or She Has A Mission In Life, That's It's Not Going To Be Accomplished Without A Great Deal Of Pain, And That The Rewards In The End May Not Outweigh The Pain -if You Recognize Historically That Always Happens, Then When It Comes, You Survive It.

I Made My Mistakes, But In All Of My Years In Public Life, I Have Never Profited, Never Profited From Public Servicei Have Earned Every Cent. And In All Of My Years Of Public Life, I Have Never Obstructed Justice. And I Think, Too, That I Could Say That In My Years Of Public Life, That I Welcome This Kind Of Examination, Because People Have Got To Know Whether Or Not Their President Is A Crook. Well, I Am Not A Crook. I Have Earned Everything I Have Got.

Any Nation That Decides The Only Way To Achieve Peace Is Through Peaceful Means Is A Nation That Will Soon Be A Piece Of Another Nation.

I Think Congress Has Spent Enough Time On Ethics. I Think It's Time They Moved On To Something Else.

Let Us Build Bridges, My Friends, Build Bridges To Human Dignity Across That Gulf That Separates Black America From White America.

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.

Baseball Is Great Because Anything Can Happen Through The Ninth Inning.

Anything Can Happen

Listen, I Don't Know Anything About Polygraphs And I Don't Know How Accurate They Are, But I Know They'll Scare The Hell Out Of People.

You Cannot Win A Battle In Any Arena Merely By Defending Yourself.

When The President Does It, That Means That It's Not Illegal.

I Don't Know Anything That Builds The Will To Win Better Than Competitive Sports.

... Member Countries Shall Take Necessary Action And/or Shall Establish Negotiations, Individually Or In Groups, With The Oil Companies With A View To Adopting Ways And Means To Offset Any Adverse Effects On The Per Barrel Real Income Of Member Countries Resulting From The International Monetary Developments As Of 15th August 1971.

I Have A Theory, Too, That The Best And Only Answer To A Smear Or To An Honest Misunderstanding Of The Facts Is To Tell The Truth

Never Forget, The Press Is The Enemy. The Establishment Is The Enemy. The Professors Are The Enemy. Professors Are The Enemy. Write That On A Blackboard 100 Times And Never Forget It.

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.

Make Sure You Pay Your Taxes; Otherwise You Can Get In A Lot Of Trouble.

To The Ordinary Guy, All This Is A Bunch Of Gobbledygook. But Out Of The Gobbledygook Comes A Very Clear Thing: You Can't Trust The Government, You Can't Believe What They Say, And You Can't Rely On Their Judgment.

Nobody Is A Friend Of Ours. Let's Face It.

Neil And Buzz, I Am Talking To You By Telephone From The Oval Office At The White House, And This Certainly Has To Be The Most Historic Telephone Call Ever Made. . . . Because Of What You Have Done, The Heavens Have Become A Part Of Man's World. As You Talk To Us From The Sea Of Tranquility, It Inspires Us To Redouble Our Efforts To Bring Peace And Tranquility To Earth.

The Finest Steel Has To Go Through The Hottest Fire.

You Can't Depend On The Man Who Made The Mess To Clean It Up.

The Constitution Supposes What The History Of All Governments Demonstrates, That The Executive Is The Branch Of Power Most Interested In War And Most Prone To It. It Has Accordingly With Studied Care, Vested The Question Of War In The Legislature. [if A President Is Successful In Bypassing The Congress] It Is Evident That The People Are Cheated Out Of The Best Ingredients In The Government, The Safeguards Of Peace Which Is The Greatest Of Their Blessings.

Well, I Screwed It Up Real Good, Didn't I?

I Learned That The People Who Have The Cards Are Usually The Ones Who Talk The Least And The Softest; Those Who Are Bluffing Tend To Talk Loudly And Give Themselves Away.

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

Let Historians Not Record That When America Was The Most Powerful Nation In The World We Passed On The Other Side Of The Road And Allowed The Last Hopes For Peace And Freedom Of Millions Of People To Be Suffocated By The Forces Of Totalitarianism. And So Tonightto You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americansi Ask For Your Support.

The Student Who Invades An Administration Building, Roughs Up A Dean, Rifles The Files And Issues 'non-negotiable Demands' May Have Some Of His Demands Met By A Permissive University Administration. But The Greater His 'victory' The More He Will Have Undermined The Security Of His Own Rights.

The Lesson Of All History Warns Us That We Should Negotiate Only When Our Military Superiority Is So Convincing That We Can Achieve Our Objective At The Conference Table, And Deny The Aggressor Theirs.

To A Crisis Of The Spirit, We Need An Answer Of The Spirit. To Find That Answer, We Need Only Look Within Ourselves. When We Listen To The Better Angels Of Our Nature, We Find That They Celebrate The Simple Things, The Basic Things--such As Goodness, Decency, Love, Kindness. Greatness Comes In Simple Trappings.

I Seriously Doubt If We Will Ever Have Another War. This Is Probably The Very Last One.

Anybody Who Wants To Be An Ambassador, Wants To Pay At Least $250,000.

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

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

My Own View Is That Taping Of Conversations For Historical Purposes Was A Bad Decision On The Part Of All The Presidents. I Don't Think Kennedy Should Have Done It. I Don't Think Johnson Should Have Done It, And I Don't Think We Should Have Done It.

I'm Not For Women, Frankly, In Any Job. I Don't Want Any Of Them Around. Thank God We Don't Have Any In The Cabinet.

Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.

The People's Right To Change What Does Not Work Is One Of The Greatest Principles In Our System Of Government

Only If You Have Been In The Deepest Valley, Can You Ever Know How Magnificent It Is To Be On The Highest Mountain.

America Will Not Tolerate Being Pushed Around By Anybody, Anyplace.

I See The Face Of A Child. He Lives In A Great City. He Is Black. Or He Is White. He Is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None Of That Matters. What Matters, He's An American Child.

There Are Times When An Abortion Is Necessary. I Know That. When You Have A Black And A White.

You Must Pursue This Investigation Of Watergate Even If It Leads To The President. I'm Innocent. You've Got To Believe I'm Innocent. If You Don't, Take My Job.

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