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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.

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We Must Adopt Reforms

Richard M. Nixon

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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.

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Unpredictability

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.

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

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Breathing Space

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

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

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

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