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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.

-Richard M. Nixon

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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.

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Breathing Space

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.

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

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

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

I Let The American People Down.

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

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

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

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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.

What Was Watergate? A Little Bugging!

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.

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

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.

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.

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I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

I've Analyzed The Best I Can... And I Have Not Found An Impeachable Offense, And Therefore Resignation Is Not An Acceptable Course.

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

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

There Can Be No Whitewash At The White House.

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

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Geography And History

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

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

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

A Public Man Must Never Forget That He Loses His Usefulness When He As An Individual, Rather Than His Policy, Becomes The Issue.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No Words Can Describe The Depths Of My Regret And Pain At The Anguish My Mistakes Over Watergate Have Caused The Nation And The Presidency - A Nation I So Deeply Love And An Institution I So Greatly Respect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Most Days I Feel Like The Sole Survivor Of A Shipwreck, Rowing My Paddleboat Across A Sea Of People On Waves Made Of An Infinite Array Of Hands And Crests That Reveal Anonymous Faces. On A Good Day, The Clouds Part To Alight On-lo And Behold-an Island! I Step Ashore, Only Find That It Too Is Made Of People, Mangled Bodies Somehow Still Alive. They Grab At My Feet, Pulling Me Under Like Quicksand. The Last Thing I See Before Suffocating Is The Sky, A Billion Eyes Staring Down, Blinking In Undulating Electric Ripples. The Cold Rain I Feel On My Cheeks Is The Tears Of The People.

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.

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

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

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

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

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.

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