The Answer To Many Of The Domestic Problems We Face Is Not Higher Taxes And More Spending. It Is Less Waste, More Results And Greater Freedom For The Individual American To Earn A Rightful Place In His Own Community - And For States And Localities To Address Their Own Needs In Their Own Ways, In The Light Of Their Own Priorities.

-Richard M. Nixon

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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

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

Military

War

Planning

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

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

Cake

Pieces

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

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

New York

Destruction

Should

Reading Not Only Enlarges And Challenges The Mind; It Also Engages And Exercises The Brain. Today's Youth Who Sits Mesmerized By A Television Screen Is Not Going To Be Tomorrow's Leader. Television Watching Is Passive. Reading Is Active.

Reading

Exercise

Television Watching

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

Thinking

Enough Time

Moved On

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.

Inspirational

Life

Motivational

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.

Jobs

Thank God

Want

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

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

Believe

Bridges

Building

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

Bridges

White

America

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

Keys

Idealism

Pragmatism

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

Friendship

Soul

Speak

The Great Silent Majority.

Presidential

Majority

Silent

I Got Into A Few Games After They Were Hopelessly Won Or Hopelessly Lost, You Know, When They Put The Substitutes In, And Finally The Water Boy, And Then Me. That Is The Way It Worked.

Football

Boys

Games

[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

Never Be Too Proud To Go Onto Your Knees Before God.

Proud

Knees

I Would Have Made A Good Pope.

Witty

Humorous

Profound

Sure There Are Dishonest Men In Local Government. But There Are Dishonest Men In National Government Too.

Fun

Men

Political

Restoring Nature To Its Natural State Is A Cause Beyond Party And Beyond Factions. It Has Become A Common Cause Of All The People Of This Country. It Is A Cause Of Particular Concern To Young Americans, Because They More Than We Will Reap The Grim Consequences Of Our Failure To Act On Programs Which Are Needed Now If We Are To Prevent Disaster Later.

Country

Party

People

Our Chief Justices Have Probably Had More Profound And Lasting Influence On Their Times And On The Direction Of The Nation Than Most Presidents.

Profound

Justice

President

I Let The American People Down.

People

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

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

Funny

Business

People

Communism Denies God, Enslaves Men, And Destroys Justice.

Men

Evil

Justice

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.

Differences

United States

Fifty

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

Men

Causes

Whole

Voters Quickly Forget What A Man Says.

Men

Voters

Forget

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.

Past

Air

Years

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

Trying

Clients

Those Who Hate You Don't Win Unless You Hate Them Back.

Hate

Winning

Hatred

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

I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.

Team

Ping Pong

Fruition

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

Never Has So Much Military And Economic And Diplomatic Power Been Used So Ineffectively, And If After All Of This Time, And All Of This Sacrifice, And All Of This Support, There Is Still No End In Sight, Then I Say The Time Has Come For The American People To Turn To New Leadership Not Tied To The Mistakes And Policies Of The Past.

Military

War

Mistake

I Know You Heard What You Thought I Said, But What I Said Isn't What I Meant.

Said

Heard

Knows

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

Men

Quitting

Beaten

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.

Responsibility

Government

Media

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

Moon

Fake

Secret

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

Space

Example

If We Succeed, It Will Not Be Because Of What We Have, But It Will Be Because Of What We Are; Not Because Of What We Own, But, Rather Because Of What We Believe.

Inspirational Life

Believe

Succeed

There Can Be No Whitewash At The White House.

War

White

House

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

Men

People

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

Funny

Moon

Years

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

Realism

Idealism

Immoral

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

Well, I'm Not A Crook.

Crooks

Wells

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

Writing

Done

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

Winning

Risk

Suffering

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

Hate

Winning

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

Advice

President

Needs

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.

Exercise

Government

President

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

Failure

Political

Politics

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

'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

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

Care

Likes

Firsts

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

Positive

Work

Heart

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

Support

Majority

Tonight

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

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

War

College

Degrees

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

Jobs

Presidential

As Long As I'm Sitting In The Chair, There's Not Going To Be Any Jew Appointed To That Court. No Jew Can Be Right On The Criminal-law Issue.

Law

Issues

Long

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

[t]here May Be Some Truth In That If The Arabs Have Some Complaints About My Policy Towards Israel, They Have To Realize That The Jews In The U. S. Control The Entire Information And Propaganda Machine, The Large Newspapers, The Motion Pictures, Radio And Television, And The Big Companies, And There Is A Force That We Have To Take Into Consideration.

Israel

Machines

Television

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

[the Public Lands Represent] In A Sense, The Breathing Space Of The Nation.

Breathing Space

Land

Nations

I Didn't Do Anything Wrong And I Promise To Never Do It Again.

Promise

I Promise

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

Inspirational

Learning

Men

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

Genius

Mediocrity

Politics

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

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.

Lonely

Jobs

Loneliness

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

Doubt

Parks

Ifs

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.

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.

Jobs

Believe

History

Don't Get The Impression That You Arouse My Anger. You See, One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects.

Anger

Impression

Angry

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

Finishing

Complaining

Politics

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.

Believe

Power

Race

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

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

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.

Kids

Thinking

Greek

Violence Or The Threat Of Violence [must] Never Be Permitted To Influence The Actions Or Judgments Of The University Community. Once It Does, The Community, Almost By Definition, Ceases To Be A University. It Is For This Reason That From Time Immemorial Expulsion Has Been The Primary Instrument Of University Discipline.

Time

Men

Discipline

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

War

President

Vietnam

We Will Establish A New System That Makes High-quality Health Care Available To Every American In A Dignified Manner And At A Price He Can Afford.

Quality

Care

Available

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

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

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.

Strength

Hurt

Strong

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.

Rest In Peace

Recovery

Sacrifice

People React To Fear, Not Love; They Don't Teach That In Sunday School, But It's True.

Love

School

Sunday

Television In Its Present Form...[is] The Opiate Of The People Of The United States.

People

United States

Opiates

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.

Jobs

Mistake

Heart

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

Interesting

Political

Dull

While Might Certainly Does Not Make Right, Neither Does Right By Itself Make Might.

Peace

War

Doe

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

Mean

Leader

Want

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

Giving

Discouraged

Great Presidents

The Three Most Difficult Words To Speak Are, "i Was Wrong."

Responsibility

Three

Speak

...we Must Strike A Balance So That The Protection Of Our Irreplaceable Heritage Becomes As Important As Its Use. The Price Of Economic Growth Need Not And Will Not Be Deterioration In The Quality Of Our Lives And Our Surroundings.

Growth

Balance

Important

And I Want You To Know That I Have No Intention Whatever Of Ever Walking Away From The Job That The People Elected Me To Do For The People Of The United States.

Jobs

Walking Away

People

Unpredictability Is The Greatest Asset A Leader Can Have.

Leader

Assets

Unpredictability

Failure Isn't Falling Down. Failure Is Not Getting Up After You Have Fallen Down.

Fall

Falling Down

Fallen

You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are Not When You Are On Top Of The World, But When The World Is On Top Of You.

True Friend

World

Top Of The World

I Want To Be Sure...that Nothing Is Done On These Veterans. Is That Understood?...is The Word Out? That They Are Not To Touch Em, They Are Not To Do A Thing?...get A Hold Of The District Police; They're Not To Touch Them, They're To Do Nothing: Just Let Em Raise Hell.

War

Police

Ems

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

Military

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

Office

Leaving

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

History

Streams

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

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

Lying

Said

Untrue

I Never Say Something I Cannot Do. And I Always Will Do More Than I Can Say.

I Can

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

America

Tolerate

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.

Country

Children

War

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.

Peace

Powerful

America

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

Government Has The Responsibility To Provide The Climate In Which Americans, All Americans, Have An Opportunity For Good Jobs; And Not Only For Good Jobs, But An Opportunity If They Have The Ability And The Desire, To Be Owners And Managers, To Have A Piece Of The Action, Because If They Have A Piece Of The Action, Then They Believe In The System Rather Than Fighting Against It.

Wisdom

Jobs

Believe

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

Damn

Damn Things

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

White

Abortion

Black

We Are Committed To Cleaning Up The Air And Cleaning Up The Water. But We Also Are Committed To A Strong Economy, And We Are Not Going To Allow The Environmental Issue To Be Used Sometimes Falsely And Sometimes In A Demagogic Way Basically To Destroy The System-the Industrial System That Made This The Great Country It Is.

Country

Strong

Air

They Say, "gee, You Look Great." That Means They Thought You Looked Like Hell Before.

Mean

Looks

Hell

The Easiest Period In A Crisis Situation Is Actually The Battle Itself. The Most Difficult Is The Period Of Indecision - Whether To Fight Or Run Away. And The Most Dangerous Period Is The Aftermath. It Is Then, With All His Resources Spent And His Guard Down, That An Individual Must Watch Out For Dulled Reactions And Faulty Judgment.

Running

Fighting

Battle

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

Enemy

Friendly

Relation

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

Politics

Down And

Politician

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

What Are Our Schools For If Not Indoctrination Against Communism?

School

Politics

Communism

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

Personality

Trying

I Really Believe Life Is Simple. It's All The Other People That Make Things Complicated.

Believe

Simple

People

The Peace We Seek To Win Is Not Victory Over Any Other People, But The Peace That Comes "with Healing In Its Wings;" With Compassion For Those Who Have Suffered; With Understanding For Those Who Have Opposed Us; With The Opportunity For All The Peoples Of This Earth To Choose Their Own Destiny.

Healing

Winning

Opportunity

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

Where The Hell Is Chad?

Political

Politics

Hell

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

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.

Pain

Survival

May

History Is A Pathetic Junkyard Of Broken Treaties.

Broken

Junkyard

Treaties

In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

Funny

Birthday

Witty

Federal And State Laws (should) Be Changed To No Longer Make It A Crime To Possess Marijuana For Private Use.

Funny

Weed

Marijuana

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.

Truth

Lying

Honor

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.

Powerful

War

Balance

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

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.

Cities

Space

People

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

Politics

Faces

Politician

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.

Believe

Passion

Garden

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

Peace

Enough

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

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

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.

Peace

Military

War

A President Can Ask For Reconciliation In The Racial Conflict That Divides Americans. But Reconciliation Comes Only From The Hearts Of People.

Heart

People

President

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

President

Doe

Illegal

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.

People

Giving

Cards

For One Priceless Moment In The Whole History Of Man, All Of The People On This Earth Are Truly One. One In Their Pride At What You Have Done, One In Our Prayers That You Will Return Safely To Earth.

Prayer

Patriotic

Pride

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

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

Dirty

Naughty

Views

The Congress, The Administration And The Public All Share A Profound Commitment To The Rescue Of Our Natural Environment, And The Preservation Of The Earth As A Place Both Habitable By And Hospitable To Man.

Commitment

Profound

Earth

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

Russia

Leader

Political

Jesus This Song You Wrote The Words Are Sticking In My Throat Peace On Earth Hear It Every Christmas Time But Hope And History Won't Rhyme So What's It Worth? This Peace On Earth

Song

Jesus

Peace

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

Honest

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

Goal

Limits

Resources

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

Intelligent

Wife

Want

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

The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

Sky

Limits

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

I Often Thought That If There Had Been A Good Rap Group Around In Those Days, I Might Have Chosen A Career In Music Instead Of Politics.

Rap

Careers

Groups

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.

Thinking

Long Ago

Hands

The Man Of Thought Who Will Not Act Is Ineffective; The Man Of Action Who Will Not Think Is Dangerous.

Men

Thinking

Action

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

The Jews Are Irreligious, Atheistic, Immoral Bunch Of Bastards.

Bunch

Jew

Immoral

... 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.

Country

Real

Mean

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

It Has Been Said That Canada Is Bounded 'on The North By Gold, On The West By The East, On The East By History - And On The South By Friends'.* We Hope That Will Always Be The Case And We Hope It Will Be The Case Not Only With Respect To The United States, Your Immediate Neighbor To The South, But With Respect To All Your Southern Neighbors - And Ours - Who Are Bound By The Great Forces Of Geography And History Which Are Distinctive To The New World.

Geography And History

Southern

Presidential

My View Is That One Should Not Break Up A Winning Combination.

Break Up

Winning

Views

Let Me Just Say This, And I Want To Say This To The Televison Audience: I Made My Mistakes, But In All Of My Years Of Public Life, I Have Never Profited, Never Profited From Public Service

Mistake

Years

Want

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

Presidential

Gentleman

Complaining

There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

White

House

White House

Look, People Get Drunk ... People Chase Girls. And The Point Is, It's A Hell Of A Lot Better For Them To Get Drunk Than To Take Drugs. It's Better To Chase Girls Than Boys.

Girl

Boys

People

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.

Thinking

President

Towns

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

Rose

Doubt

Johnson

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.

Mean

Years

Balance

My Concern Today Is Not With The Length Of A Person's Hair But With His Conduct.

Hair

Today

Length

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

Blessing

Boredom

Problem

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

Speech

Politician

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

Real

Wells

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

Enemy

Concerned

Presses

The Destiny Of Our Land, The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink Is Not In The Mystical Hands Of An Uncontrollable Agent, It Is In Our Hands. A Future Which Brings The Balancing Of Our Resources-preserving Quality With Quantity - Is A Future Limited Only By The Boundaries Of Our Will To Get The Job Done.

Jobs

Destiny

Air

A Man Who Has Never Lost Himself In A Cause Bigger Than Himself Has Missed One Of Life's Mountaintop Experiences. Only In Losing Himself Does He Find Himself. Only Then Does He Discover All The Latent Strengths He Never Knew He Had And Which Otherwise Would Have Remained Dormant.

Patriotic

Men

Doe

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

The Developing Coherence Of Asian Regional Thinking Is Reflected In A Disposition To Consider Problems And Loyalties In Regional Terms, And To Evolve Regional Approaches To Development Needs And To The Evolution Of A New World Order.

Loyalty

Thinking

Nwo

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.

Dog

Kings

Would Be

You Have To Face The Fact That The Whole Problem Is Really The Blacks. The Key Is To Devise A System That Recognizes This All While Not Appearing To.

Keys

Faces

Facts

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

Politics

Politician

Found

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

Moving

Eras

Conflict

Italy Hasn't Had A Government Since Mussolini.

Travel

Home

Government

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

Successful

People

Leader

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

Done

Twisted

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

People

Problem

What We Do With This Peace-whether We Preserve It And Defend It, Or Whether We Lose It And Let It Slip Away-will Be The Measure Of Our Worthiness Of The Spirit And Sacrifice Of The Hundreds Of Thousands Who Gave Their Lives In Two World Wars, Korea, And In Vietnam.

War

Sacrifice

Korea

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

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.

Stars

Hero

Epic

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 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

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

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.

Strong

Promise

Produce

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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