Our Youth Can Not Understand Why Society Chooses To Criminalize A Behavior With So Little Visible Ill Effect Or Adverse Social Impact... These Young People Have Jumped The Fence And Found No Cliff. And The Disrespect For The Possession Laws Fosters A Disrespect For Laws And The System In General... On Top Of This Is The Distinct Impression Among The Youth That Some Police May Use The Marihuana Laws To Arrest People They Don't Like For Other Reasons, Whether It Be Their Politics, Their Hair Style Or Their Ethnic Background.

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We Shall Continue, In This Era Of Negotiation, To Work For The Limitation Of Nuclear Arms And To Reduce The Danger Of Confrontation Between The Great Powers.

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

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I Gave 'em A Sword. And They Stuck It In, And They Twisted It With Relish. And I Guess If I Had Been In Their Position, I'd Have Done The Same Thing.

Ems

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You've Got To Learn To Survive A Defeat. That's When You Develop Character.

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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.

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Because The Public Lands Belong To All Americans, This 1872 Mining Act Should Be Repealed.

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There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

White

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I'd Like To See People, Instead Of Spending So Much Time On The Ethical Problem, Get After The Problems That Really Affect The People Of This Country

Country

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A Man Isn't Finnished When He Is Beaten He Is Finnished When He Quits

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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.

Sports

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Yet We Can Maintain A Free Society Only If We Recognize That In A Free Society No One Can Win All The Time. No One Can Have His Own Way All The Time, And No One Is Right All The Time.

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While Technically I Did Not Commit A Crime, An Impeachable Offense... These Are Legalisms, As Far As The Handling Of This Matter Is Concerned; It Was So Botched Up, I Made So Many Bad Judgments. The Worst Ones, Mistakes Of The Heart, Rather Than The Head. But Let Me Say, A Man In That Top Job - He's Got To Have A Heart, But His Head Must Always Rule His Heart.

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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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America

United States

But More Than Anything Else, We Have Learned That Legal Assistance For The Poor, When Properly Provided, Is One Of The Most Constructive Ways To Help Them Help Themselves.

Justice

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The 1970s Must Be The Years When America Pays Its Debt To The Past By Reclaiming The Purity Of Its Air, Its Waters, And Our Living Environment. It Is Literally Now Or Never.

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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.

Color

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

Speech

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The Successful Leader Does Not Talk Down To People. He Lifts Them Up.

Successful

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Remember, Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty. Always Remember, Others May Hate You. But Those Who Hate You Don't Win Unless You Hate Them. And Then You Destroy Yourself.

Fear

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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.

Moon

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Mrs. Nixon And I Share The Sorrow Of Millions Of Americans At The Death Of Louis Armstrong. One Of The Architects Of An American Art Form, A Free And Individual Spirit, And An Artist Of Worldwide Fame, His Great Talents And Magnificent Spirit Added Richness And Pleasure To All Our Lives.

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Politics Would Be A Helluva Good Business If It Weren't For The Goddamned People.

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The Press Is The Enemy.

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It's A Piece Of Cake Until You Get To The Top. You Find You Can't Stop Playing The Game The Way You've Always Played It.

Games

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Maybe New York Shouldn't Survive. Maybe It Should Go Through A Cycle Of Destruction.

New York

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The Worst Thing A Politician Can Be Is Dull. At Least I'm Interesting.

Interesting

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

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Before We Become Too Arrogant With The Most Deadly Of The Seven Deadly Sins, The Sin Of Pride, Let Us Remember That The Two Great Wars Of This Century, Wars Which Cost Twenty Million Dead, Were Fought Between Christian Nations Praying To The Same God.

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For Among Nations - As Within Nations - The Soundest Unity Is That Which Respects Diversity, And The Strongest Cohesion Is That Which Rejects Coercion.

Diversity

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Unity

It Is In That Spirit, The Spirit Of '76, That I Ask You To Rise And Join Me In A Toast To Chairman Mao, To Premier Chou, To The People Of Our Two Countries, And To The Hope Of Our Children That Peace And Harmony Can Be The Legacy Of Our Generation To Theirs.

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

War

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Honesty May Not Be The Best Policy, But It Is Worth Trying Once In A While.

Honesty

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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.

Thinking

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Should Have

I Took A Look Around The Office. ... I Walked Out And Closed The Door Behind Me. I Knew That I Would Not Be Back There Again." (on Leaving The Executive Office Building)

Doors

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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.

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We Believe That Part Of The Answer Lies In Pricing Energy On The Basis Of Its Full Costs To Society. One Reason We Use Energy So Lavishly Today Is That The Price Of Energy Does Not Include All Of The Social Costs Of Producing It. The Costs Incurred In Protecting The Environment And The Health And Safety Of Workers, For Example, Are Part Of The Real Costs Of Producing Energy-but They Are Not Now All Included In The Price Of The Product.

Lying

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Believe

Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.

Military

Vietnam

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

I Can

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.

War

Giving

Together

I've Never Left A Game Before It Ended. You Never Know When There Could Be A Big Turnaround In The Game.

Inspirational

Motivational

Baseball

Peace Demands More, Not Less, From A People. Peace Lacks The Clarity Of Purpose And The Cadence Of War. War Is Scripted: Peace Is Improvisation.

Peace

War

Clarity Of Purpose

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.

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

Sports

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Will To Win

No President In History Has Been More Vilified Or Was More Vilivied During The Time He Was President Than Lincoln. Those Who Knew Him, His Secretaries, Have Written That He Was Deeply Hurt By What Was Said About Him And Drawn About Him, But On The Other Hand, Lincoln Had The Great Strength Of Character Never To Display It, Always Able To Stand Tall And Strong And Firm No Matter How Harsh Or Unfair The Criticism Might Be. These Elements Of Greatness, Of Course, Inspire Us All Today.

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Tonight - To You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americans - I Ask For Your Support.

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Majority

Tonight

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

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Abortion

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During The Prince's Visit, King Timahoe Will Be Referred To Only As Timahoe, Since It Would Be Inappropriate For The Prince To Be Outranked By A Dog.

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An Important Measure Of Our True Commitment To Environmental Quality Is Our Dedication To Protecting The Wilderness And Its Inhabitants. We Must Recognize Their Ecological Significance And Preserve Them As Sources Of Inspiration And Education. And We Need Them As Places Of Quiet Refuge And Reflection.

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

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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.

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I Also Believe That Academic Freedom Should Protect The Right Of A Professor Or Student To Advocate Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Or Any Other Minority Viewpoint - No Matter How Distasteful To The Majority, Provided...

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Viewpoints

So You Are Lean And Mean And Resourceful And You Continue To Walk On The Edge Of The Precipice Because Over The Years You Have Become Fascinated By How Close You Can Walk Without Losing Your Balance.

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Capitalism Works Better Than It Sounds, While Socialism Sounds Better Than It Works.

Sound

Socialism

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You Have My Assurance That We Will Respond With Full Force Should The Settlement Be Violated By North Vietnam.

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Vietnam

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

Debate

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We Can No Longer Afford To Consider Air And Water Common Property, Free To Be Abused By Anyone Without Regard To The Consequences. Instead, We Should Begin Now To Treat Them As Scarce Resources, Which We Are No More Free To Contaminate Than We Are Free To Throw Garbage Into Our Neighbor's Yard.

Air

Water

Environmental

If I Were To Make Public These Tapes, Containing Blunt And Candid Remarks On Many Different Subjects, The Confidentiality Of The Office Of The President Would Always Be Suspect.

Stupid

Office

President

Unless A President Can Protect The Privacy Of The Advice He Gets, He Cannot Get The Advice He Needs.

Advice

President

Needs

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.

Heart

Government

Voice

The Soviet Union Began By Banishing God. The United States Began As A Community Of People Who Wanted To Worship God As They Chose. . . Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Those In The United States Whose Desire To Create A Strictly Secular Society Is As Strong As Lenin's Was Should Study This Cold War Lesson Closely. Communism Was Defeated By An Alliance Spearheaded By 'one Nation Under God.'

Strong

War

Men

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.

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Power

Race

The Recent Upsurge Of Public Concern Over Environmental Questions Reflects A Belated Recognition That Man Has Been Too Cavalier In His Relations With Nature. Unless We Arrest The Depredations That Have Been Inflicted So Carelessly On Our Natural Systems-which Exist In An Intricate Set Of Balances-we Face The Prospect Of Ecological Disaster.

Men

Balance

Faces

Let Us Build A Structure Of Peace In The World In Which The Weak Are As Safe As The Strong In Which Each Respects The Right Of The Other To Live By A Different System In Which Those Who Would Influence Others Will Do So By The Strength Of Their Ideas, And Not By The Force Of Their Arms. Let Us Accept That High Responsibility Not As A Burden, But Gladly Gladly Because The Chance To Build Such A Peace Is The Noblest Endeavor In Which A Nation Can Engage.

Peace

Strong

Responsibility

The Events That Followed Our Withdrawal From Vietnam, Including The Plight Of The Boat People And The More Than 1 Million Slaughtered By The New Communist Rulers Of Cambodia, Showed That Media Critics Who Said We Were On The Wrong Side Were Mistaken.

War

Media

People

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

Friendship

Soul

Speak

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.

Men

Rights

Issues

Any Lady Who Is First Lady Likes Being First Lady. I Don't Care What They Say, They Like It.

Care

Likes

Firsts

The Greatness Comes Not When Things Go Always Good For You. But The Greatness Comes When You're Really Tested, When You Take Some Knocks, Some Disappointments, When Sadness Comes. Because Only If You've Been In The Deepest Valley Can You Ever Know How Magnificent It Is To Be On The Highest Mountain.

Positive

Courage

Disappointment

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

Sides

Hell

States

Those Who Hate Us Only Win If We Hate Them Back

Hate

Winning

Ifs

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.

History

World

Week

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

Politics

Faces

Politician

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.

Tides

Middle

Vocation

It Is Essential That We Take Steps To Prevent Chemical Substances From Becoming Environmental Hazards. Unless We Develop Better Methods To Assure Adequate Testing Of Chemicals, We Will Be Inviting The Environmental Crisis Of The Future.

Environmental

Essentials

Hazards

Our Idea Is To Create A Situation In Which Those Lands To Which We Have Obligations Or In Which We Have Interests, If They Are Ready To Fight A Fire, Should Be Able To Count On Us To Furnish The Hose And Water.

Fighting

Fire

Land

[peter] Drucker Says That Modern Government Can Do Only Two Things Well: Wage War And Inflate The Currency. Its The Aim Of My Administration To Prove Mr Drucker Wrong.

War

Government

Two

If You Want To Make Beautiful Music, You Must Play The Black And The White Notes Together.

Music

Beautiful

Equality

As We Work To Expand Our Supplies Of Energy, We Should Also Recognize That We Must Balance Those Efforts With Our Concern To Preserve Our Environment. In The Past, As We Have Sought New Energy Sources, We Have Too Often Damaged Or Despoiled Our Land.

Past

Land

Effort

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

President

Doe

Illegal

We Still Think Of Air As Free. But Clean Air Is Not Free, And Neither Is Clean Water. The Price Tag On Pollution Control Is High. Through Our Years Of Past Carelessness We Incurred A Debt To Nature, And Now That Debt Is Being Called.

Past

Thinking

Air

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.

Memories

Sky

White

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

Baseball

Games

Lasts

Rarely Have So Many People Been So Wrong About So Much.

Men

People

It Is Sad That It Was Necessary That Santa Barbara Should Be The Example That Had To Bring It To The Attention Of The American People. What Is Involved Is The Use Of Our Resources Of The Sea And Of The Land In A More Effective Way And With More Concern For Preserving The Beauty And The Natural Resources That Are So Important To Any Kind Of Society That We Want For The Future. The Santa Barbara Incident Has Frankly Touched The Conscience Of The American People.

Santa Barbara

Sea

Land

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

Smart

Stupid

Fall

In A Flat Choice Between Smoke And Jobs, We're For Jobs... But Just Keep Me Out Of Trouble On Environmental Issues.

Jobs

Issues

Choices

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.

War

Long

People

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.

Media

Years

Force

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.

Technology

Men

Thinking

Success Is Not A Harbor But A Voyage With Its Own Perils To The Spirit. The Game Of Life Is To Come Up A Winner, To Be A Success, Or To Achieve What We Set Out To Do.

Congratulations

Games

Voyages

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

Office

President

United States

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

Success

Winning

Presidential

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

Inspirational

Life

Hiking

It I Talked About Watergate, I Was Described As Struggling To Free Myself From The Morass. If I Did Not Talk About Watergate, I Was Accused Of Being Out Of Touch With Reality.

Struggle

Reality

Swag

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

Failure

Political

Politics

When I Grow Up, I Want To Be An Honest Lawyer So Things Like That Can't Happen.

Growing Up

Want

Honest

Once Genius Is Submerged By Bureaucracy, A Nation Is Doomed To Mediocrity.

Genius

Mediocrity

Politics

When I Spoke At The St. Lawrence Seaway Ceremonies In 1969, I Borrowed Some Words From The Monument There Which I Had Joined Queen Elizabeth In Dedicating Just 10 Years Before. That Monument, As Its Inscription Puts It, 'bears Witness To The Common Purpose Of Two Nations Whose Frontiers Are The Frontiers Of Friendship, Whose Ways Are The Ways Of Freedom, Whose Works Are The Works Of Peace'.

Queens

Two

Common Purpose

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.

Thinking

History

Life Is

Scrubbing Floors And Emptying Bedpans Has As Much Dignity As The Presidency.

Politics

Dignity

Presidency

The Peace We Seek In The World Is Not The Flimsy Peace Which Is Merely An Interlude Between Wars, But A Peace Which Can Endure For Generations To Come. It Is Important That We Understand Both The Necessity And The Limitations Of America's Role In Maintaining That Peace. Unless We In America Work To Preserve The Peace, There Will Be No Peace. Unless We In America Work To Preserve Freedom, There Will Be No Freedom.

Peace

War

America

History Is A Pathetic Junkyard Of Broken Treaties.

Broken

Junkyard

Treaties

The American People Are Entitled To See The President And To Hear His Views Directly, And Not To See Him Only Through The Press.

Views

People

President

Baseball Without Fans Is Like Jayne Mansfield Without A Sweater. Hang On, That Can Be Taken Two Ways.

Baseball

Taken

Two

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."

Wisdom

Rights

Practice

We Must Adopt Reforms Which Will Expand The Range Of Opportunities For All Americans. We Can Fulfill The American Dream Only When Each Person Has A Fair Chance To Fulfill His Own Dreams. This Means Equal Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity And New Opportunities For Expanded Ownership, Because In Order To Be Secure In Their Human Rights, People Need Access To Property Rights.

Wisdom

Dream

Mean

There Is An International Disease Which Feeds On The Notion That If You Have A Cause To Defend, You Can Use Any Means To Further Your Cause, Since The End Justifies The Means. As An International Community, We Must Oppose This Notion, Whether It Be In Canada, In The United States, Or Anywhere Else. No Cause Justifies Violence As Long As The System Provides For Change By Peaceful Means.

Mean

Long

Community

Being Trustworthy Is Something You Are, Something You Stand For And A Core Value You Live By. It Isn't Something You Can Train For Nor Is It Something You Can Manipulate. You Either Have Those Values Or You Don't.

Trust

Manipulate

Live By

Nothing Matters More To The Future Of This Nation Than Insuring That Our Young Men And Women Learn To Believe In Themselves And Believe In Their Dreams, And That They Develop This Capacitythat You Develop This Capacity, So That You Keep It All Of Your Lives. I Believe One Of Americas Most Priceless Assets Is The Idealism Which Motivates The Young People Of America. My Generation Has Invested All That It Has, Not Only Its Love But Its Hope And Faith, In Yours.

Love

Dream

Believe

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

Men

Causes

Whole

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.

Yield

Government

People

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

Giving

Discouraged

Great Presidents

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

Wisdom

Facts

Answers

The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine.

Imagine

Bohemian

Grove

The True Idealist Pursues What His Heart Says Is Right In A Way That His Head Says Will Work.

Positive

Work

Heart

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

Bridges

White

America

I Have Earned Every Cent. And In All Of My Years Of Public Life I Have Never Obstructed Justice.

Years

Justice

Cents

The Jews Are Just A Very Aggressive And Abrasive And Obnoxious Personality.

Personality

Aggressive

Obnoxious

I Would Not Like To Be A Political Leader In Russia. They Never Know When They're Being Taped.

Russia

Leader

Political

No Failure Is Final Unless You Ratify It.

Finals

No Failure

But It's Not Just The Ratty Part Of Town. The Upper Class In San Francisco Is That Way. The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine, With That San Francisco Crowd. I Can't Shake Hands With Anybody From San Francisco.

Hands

Class

San Francisco

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.

Peace

Mean

America

Mr. Stevenson Has A Degree Alright-a Phd From The Acheson College Of Cowardly Communist Containment.

War

College

Degrees

This Is A Great Day For France!

Funny

Dumb

Great Day

Communism Denies God, Enslaves Men, And Destroys Justice.

Men

Evil

Justice

I Let The American People Down, And I Have To Carry That Burden For The Rest Of My Life. My Political Life Is Over. I Will Never Again Have An Opportunity To Serve In Any Official Position. Maybe I Can Give A Little Advice From Time To Time.

Opportunity

People

Giving

Lyndon Johnson Rose Above The Doubt And Fear To Hold This Nation On Course Until We Rediscovered Our Faith In Ourselves.

Rose

Doubt

Johnson

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.

Vision

President

Eras

If I Had My Life To Live Over, I Would Have Liked To Have Ended Up As A Sportswriter.

Inspirational

Ifs

As Far As I Am Concerned Now, I Have No Enemies In The Press Whatsoever.

Enemy

Concerned

Presses

The Time Has Come For Us To Draw The Line. The Time Has Come For The Responsible Leaders Of Both Political Parties To Take A Stand Against Overgrown Government And For The American Taxpayer.

Party

Government

Leader

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

Intelligent

Wife

Want

The Italians . . . You Can't Find One Who Is Honest.

Honest

I Wish I Could Give You A Lot Of Advice, Based On My Experience Of Winning Political Debates. But I Don't Have That Experience. My Only Experience Is At Losing Them.

Winning

Giving

Political

Black Americans, No More Than White Americans, They Do Not Want More Government Programs Which Perpetuate Dependency. They Don't Want To Be A Colony In A Nation.

Government

White

Black

I Refuse To Make A Decision That Somebody Else Can Make. The First Rule Of Leadership Is To Save Yourself For The Big Decision. Don't Allow Your Mind To Become Cluttered.

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

Helping Others

Purpose

Remember

At Home, We Must Reject The Mistaken Notion - A Notion That Has Dominated Too Much Of The Public Dialogue For Too Long - That Ever Bigger Government Is The Answer To Every Problem.

Home

Government

Long

Law Enforcement Officers Should Use Only The Minimum Force Necessary In Dealing With Disorders When They Arise. A Human Life-the Life Of A Student, Soldier, Or Police Officer-is A Precious Thing, And The Taking Of A Life Can Be Justified Only As A Necessary And Last Resort.

Law

Police

Soldier

I Believe In The Battle-whether It's The Battle Of A Campaign Or The Battle Of This Office, Which Is A Continuing Battle.

Believe

Office

Battle

In Our Own Lives, Let Each Of Us Ask — Not Just What Will Government Do For Me, But What Can I Do For Myself? In The Challenges We Face Together, Let Each Of Us Ask —not Just How Can Government Help, But How Can I Help?

Government

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.

Dedication

Goal

Perfection

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.

4th Of July

Patriotic

Government

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.

Science

People

Scare

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

Writing

Done

I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.

Dirty

Naughty

Views

Where The Hell Is Chad?

Political

Politics

Hell

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.

War

Character

Adversity

What Was Watergate? A Little Bugging!

Littles

Watergate

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does. A Man Is Not Finished When He's Defeated. He's Finished When He Quits.

Failure

Men

Presidential

We Don't Owe The Blacks A Damn Thing, Anyway.

Damn

Damn Things

I Was Under Medication When I Made The Decision To Burn The Tapes.

Funny

Stupid

Decision

Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.

Philosophy

Media

News

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

War

Wish

Done

What Kind Of Nation We Will Be, What Kind Of World We Will Live In, Whether We Shape The Future In The Image Of Our Hopes, Is Ours To Determine By Our Actions And Our Choices.

Presidential

Choices

Our Actions

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.

Peace

Mean

Pieces

The Great Silent Majority.

Presidential

Majority

Silent

Now That All The Members Of The Press Are So Delighted I Lost, I'd Like To Make A Statement. As I Leave You I Want You To Know -just Think How Much You'll Be Missing. You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.

Thinking

Missing

Gentleman

I Can See Clearly Now... That I Was Wrong In Not Acting More Decisively And More Forthrightly In Dealing With Watergate.

History

Acting

Watergate

A Riot Is A Spontaneous Outburst. A War Is Subject To Advance Planning.

Military

War

Planning

The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family. You Give Him Some Responsibility And He Is Going To Amount To Something. He Is Going To Do Something. If, On The Other Hand, You Make Him Completely Dependent And Pamper Him And Cater To Him Too Much, You Are Going To Make Him Soft, Spoiled And Eventually A Very Weak Individual.

Children

Responsibility

Average

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.

Disappointment

Giving Up

Order

You Know Very Well That Whether You Are On Page One Or Page Thirty Depends On Whether They Fear You. It's As Simple As That.

Simple

Presidential

Pages

By The Time You Get Dressed, Drive Out There, Play 18 Holes And Come Home, You've Blown Seven Hours. There Are Better Things You Can Do With Your Time.

Home

Play

Hours

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

Peace

Enough

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

Toilets

Unions

Bathroom

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

Government

People

Principles

Idealism Without Pragmatism Is Impotent. Pragmatism Without Idealism Is Meaningless. The Key To Effective Leadership Is Pragmatic Idealism.

Keys

Idealism

Pragmatism

When Information Which Properly Belongs To The Public Is Systematically Withheld By Those In Power, The People Soon Become Ignorant Of Their Own Affairs, Distrustful Of Those Who Manage Them, And -- Eventually -- Incapable Of Determining Their Own Destinies.

Destiny

People

Ignorant

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.

Writing

Enemy

Never Forget

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

Men

Clean

He Man

My Gravest Secret Is That I Really Did Fake The Moon Landing. On Venus!

Moon

Fake

Secret

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

Goal

Limits

Resources

Don't Try To Take On A New Personality; It Doesn't Work.

Personality

Trying

With Those Who Are Willing To Join, Let Us Cooperate To Reduce The Burden Of Arms, To Strengthen The Structure Of Peace, To Lift Up The Poor And The Hungry.

Arms

Hungry

Poor

What A Strange Creature Man Is That He Fouls His Own Nest.

Men

Nests

Strange

'environment' Is Not An Abstract Concern, Or Simply A Matter Of Aesthetics, Or Of Personal Taste - Although It Can And Should Involve These As Well. Man Is Shaped To A Great Extent By His Surroundings. Our Physical Nature, Our Mental Health, Our Culture And Institutions, Our Opportunities For Challenge And Fulfillment, Our Very Survival - All Of These Are Directly Related To And Affected By The Environment In Which We Live. They Depend Upon The Continued Healthy Functioning Of The Natural Systems Of The Earth.

Men

Opportunity

Challenges

The Only Place You And I Disagree Is With Regard To The Bombing. You're So Goddamned Concerned About The Civilians, And I (in Contrast) Don't Give A Damn. I Don't Care.". . . "i'd Rather Use The Nuclear Bomb. . . Does That Bother You? I Just Want You To Think Big.

War

Thinking

Giving

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

Change

Chaos

Bureaucracy

Sharp Increases In The Minimum Wage Rate Are Also Inflationary. Frequently Workers Paid More Than The Minimum Gauge Their Wages Relative To It. This Is Especially True Of Those Workers Who Are Paid By The Hour. An Increase In The Minimum Therefore Increases Their Demands For Higher Wages In Order To Maintain Their Place In The Structure Of Wages. And When The Increase Is As Sharp As It Is In H.r. 7935, The Result Is Sure To Be A Fresh Surge Of Inflation.

Impact

Order

Gauges

If I Had Feelings, I Probably Wouldn’t Have Even Survived.

Feelings

Ifs

Survived

I've Never Canceled A Subscription To A Newspaper Because Of Bad Cartoons Or Editorials. If That Were The Case, I Wouldn't Have Any Newspapers Or Magazines To Read.

Cartoon

Magazines

Cases

Certainly In The Next 50 Years We Shall See A Woman President, Perhaps Sooner Than You Think. A Woman Can And Should Be Able To Do Any Political Job That A Man Can Do.

Jobs

Men

Thinking

The Mark Of A True Politician Is That He Is Never At A Loss For Words Because He Is Always Half-expecting To Be Asked To Make A Speech.

Loss

Half

Speech

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.

Children

Italian

What Matters

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

America

Tolerate

Millions Who Endure Poverty And Bad Government Can Now Know What They Are Missing. To See How The Other Half Lives All They Have To Do Is Switch On Their Television Sets.

Government

Missing

Television

I Don't Think A Woman Should Be In Any Government Job Whatever. I Mean, I Really Don't. The Reason Why I Do Is Mainly Because They Are Erratic And Emotional.

Jobs

Mean

Emotional

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.

Anger

Sunset

Discipline

I Believe In Building Bridges, But We Should Only Build Our End Of The Bridge.

Believe

Bridges

Building

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

History

Winner

Beats

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

Realism

Idealism

Immoral

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

Office

President

We Seek Friendly Relations With All Nations. Any Nation Can Be Our Friend Without Being Any Other Nation's Enemy.

Enemy

Friendly

Relation

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.

Religious

War

Reality

The Language Of Politics Is Poetry, Not Prose. Jackson Is Poetry. Cuomo Is Poetry. Dukakis Is A Word Processor.

Language

Prose

Processors

In His Heart Everyone Knows That The Only People Who Get Rich From The "get Rich Quick" Books Are Those Who Write Them.

Book

Writing

Heart

I'm Glad I'm Not Brezhnev. Being The Russian Leader In The Kremlin. You Never Know If Someone's Tape Recording What You Say.

Wisdom

Leader

Tape

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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