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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.

-Richard M. Nixon

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The Peace We Seek

Richard M. Nixon

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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.

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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.

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Clarity Of Purpose

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The Press Is The Enemy.

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

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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.

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

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I Let The American People Down.

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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)

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Great Presidents

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

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

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

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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.

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

Breathing Space

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.

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

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

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Geography And History

People Have Got To Know Whether Or Not Their President Is A Crook. Well, I'm Not A Crook. I Earned Everything I've Got.

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

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.

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

Why Would Anyone Want To Be President Today? The Answer Is Not One Of Glory, Or Fame; Today The Burdens Of The Office Outweigh Its Privileges. Its Not Because The Presidency Offers A Chance To Be Somebody, But Because It Offers A Chance To Do Something.

The Ability To Be Cool, Confident, And Decisive In Crisis Is Not An Inherited Characteristic But Is The Direct Result Of How Well The Individual Has Prepared Himself For The Battle.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Anything Can Happen

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

Those Who Hate Us Only Win If We Hate Them Back

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

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.

Television Watching

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

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.'

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

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

Unpredictability Is The Greatest Asset A Leader Can Have.

Unpredictability

A Politician Knows That His Friends Are Not Always His Allies, And That His Adversaries Are Not Always His Enemies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voters Quickly Forget What A Man Says.

I Would Have Made A Good Pope.

...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.

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

The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

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

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.

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

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.

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

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

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

We, This Nation Of Ours, Could Be The Richest Nation In The World. We Could Be The Freest Nation In The World - But Only If The Arts Are Alive And Flourishing Can We Experience The True Meaning Of Our Freedom, And Know The Full Glory Of The Human Spirit.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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