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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.
-Richard M. Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon
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.
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Mean
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Castro Couldn't Even Go To The Bathroom Unless The Soviet Union Put The Nickel In The Toilet.
Toilets
Unions
Bathroom
When I Am The Candidate, I Run The Campaign.
Running
Campaigns
Candidates
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Hiking
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Powerful
America
United States
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
Clean Air, Clean Water, Open Spaces - These Should Once Again Be The Birthright Of Every American.
Air
Space
Water
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
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.
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Long
Community
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
Way
Helping
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
You Want A Wife Who Is Intelligent, But Not Too Intelligent.
Intelligent
Wife
Want
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 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
The Communists Have Lost The Cold War, But The West Has Not Yet Won It.
War
West
Losing
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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
If We Take The Route Of The Permanent Handout, The American Character Will Itself Be Impoverished.
Character
Handouts
Routes
It Is Not Enough Just To Be For Peace. The Point Is, What Can We Do About It?
Peace
Enough
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
There Are Times When An Abortion Is Necessary. I Know That. When You Have A Black And A White.
White
Abortion
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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
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."
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Rights
Practice
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Government
President
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History
Streams
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
Screw State! State's Always On The Side Of The Blacks. The Hell With Them!
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Hell
States
Italy Hasn't Had A Government Since Mussolini.
Travel
Home
Government
I Really Believe Life Is Simple. It's All The Other People That Make Things Complicated.
Believe
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I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.
Failure
Political
Politics
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.
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Men
Thinking
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Growing Up
Want
Honest
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
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
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Reading
Exercise
Television Watching
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Thinking
Long Ago
Hands
Politics Would Be A Helluva Good Business If It Weren't For The Goddamned People.
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People
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Writing
Done
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Lying
Said
Untrue
Once Genius Is Submerged By Bureaucracy, A Nation Is Doomed To Mediocrity.
Genius
Mediocrity
Politics
The Constitution Supposes What The History Of All Governments Demonstrates, That The Executive Is The Branch Of Power Most Interested In War And Most Prone To It. It Has Accordingly With Studied Care, Vested The Question Of War In The Legislature. [if A President Is Successful In Bypassing The Congress] It Is Evident That The People Are Cheated Out Of The Best Ingredients In The Government, The Safeguards Of Peace Which Is The Greatest Of Their Blessings.
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Successful
Blessing
Unpredictability Is The Greatest Asset A Leader Can Have.
Leader
Assets
Unpredictability
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Men
Issues
Never Forget
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Air
Land
Water
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Lonely
Jobs
Loneliness
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Responsibility
Government
Media
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Together Again
Presidential
Together
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Winning
Risk
Suffering
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Tolerate
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Conservative
Should
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Funny
Stupid
Decision
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Pay
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Mean
Emotional
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Personality
Trying
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Sky
White
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Survival
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Communism Starts With The Proposition That There Are No Universal Truths Or General Truths Of Human Nature.
Evil
Human Nature
Communism
When The President Does It, That Means That It's Not Illegal.
Silly
Mean
Political
My Telephone Calls And Meetings And Decisions Were Now Parts Of A Prescribed Ritual Aimed At Making Peace With The Past; His Calls, His Meetings And His Decisions Were Already The Ones That Would Shape America's Future." (on Transfer Of Power To Gerald R Ford)
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Peace
Reading
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
Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.
Inspirational
Learning
Men
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
The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow Is The Title Of Peacemaker.
Peace
Patriotic
Honor
My View Is That One Should Not Break Up A Winning Combination.
Break Up
Winning
Views
I Don't Know Anything That Builds The Will To Win Better Than Competitive Sports.
Sports
Winning
Will To Win
Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.
Philosophy
Media
News
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Speech
Politician
The President Wants Me To Argue That He Is As Powerful A Monarch As Louis Xiv, Only Four Years At A Time, And Is Not Subject To The Processes Of Any Court In The Land Except The Court Of Impeachment.
Powerful
Years
Land
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
The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going To Be Bombed This Time.
Military
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
Failure Isn't Falling Down. Failure Is Not Getting Up After You Have Fallen Down.
Fall
Falling Down
Fallen
I Always Remember That Whatever I Have Done In The Past Or May Do In The Future, Duke University Is Responsible In One Way Or Another.
Past
Done
May
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
I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.
Dirty
Naughty
Views
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
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
Real
Believe
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
Views
Should Have
I Have The Greatest Affection For Them But I Know They're Not Going To Make It For 500 Years. They Aren't. You Know It, Too. The Mexicans Are A Different Cup Of Tea. They Have A Heritage. At The Present Time They Steal, They're Dishonest, But They Do Have Some Concept Of Family Life. They Don't Live Like A Bunch Of Dogs, Which The Negroes Do Live Like.
Dog
Years
Tea
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
My Gravest Secret Is That I Really Did Fake The Moon Landing. On Venus!
Moon
Fake
Secret
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
Idealism Without Pragmatism Is Impotent. Pragmatism Without Idealism Is Meaningless. The Key To Effective Leadership Is Pragmatic Idealism.
Keys
Idealism
Pragmatism
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
Never Be Too Proud To Go Onto Your Knees Before God.
Proud
Knees
Nothing Would Please The Kremlin More Than To Have The People Of This Country Choose A Second Rate President.
Country
People
Political
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
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
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
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.
Light
Community
Priorities
Those Who Hate You Don't Win Unless You Hate Them Back.
Hate
Winning
Hatred
God, Of Course, Is The Greatest Philosopher Of All.
Philosopher
Courses
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
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
People React To Fear, Not Love; They Don't Teach That In Sunday School, But It's True.
Love
School
Sunday
Publicly, We Say One Thing....actually, We Do Another.
One Thing
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Peace
War
America
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I Would Have Made A Good Pope.
Witty
Humorous
Profound
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
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
Extremists On The Left Tend To Be Just As Critical Of Pragmatism As Extremists On The Right.
Pragmatism
Critical
Extremist
I Seriously Doubt If We Will Ever Have Another War. This Is Probably The Very Last One.
War
Doubt
Lasts
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Peace
Mean
America
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
Because Of The Realities Of Human Nature, Perfect Peace Is Achieved In Two Places Only: In The Grave And At The Typewriter.
Peace
Reality
Typewriters
We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another - Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard As Well As Our Voices.
Communication
Learning
Voice
Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.
War
Wish
Done
We Must Never Forget That If The War In Vietnam Is Lost ... The Right Of Free Speech Will Be Extinguished Throughout The World.
War
Vietnam
World
I Would Not Like To Be A Political Leader In Russia. They Never Know When They're Being Taped.
Russia
Leader
Political
Finishing Second In The Olympics Gets You Silver. Finishing Second In Politics Gets You Oblivion.
Finishing
Complaining
Politics
...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
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
[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
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
To A Crisis Of The Spirit, We Need An Answer Of The Spirit. To Find That Answer, We Need Only Look Within Ourselves. When We Listen To The Better Angels Of Our Nature, We Find That They Celebrate The Simple Things, The Basic Things--such As Goodness, Decency, Love, Kindness. Greatness Comes In Simple Trappings.
Kindness
Angel
Simple
Peace Is A Great Goal, But It Is Not A Panacea. Neither Is Material Wealth.
Goal
Wealth
Panacea
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
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
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
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
I Can See Clearly Now... That I Was Wrong In Not Acting More Decisively And More Forthrightly In Dealing With Watergate.
History
Acting
Watergate
Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.
Mean
Opportunity
Government
The Only Way To Achieve A Practical, Livable Peace In A World Of Competing Nations Is To Take The Profit Out Of War.
War
Democracy
World
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
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
The One Thing Sure About Politics Is That What Goes Up Comes Down And What Goes Down Often Comes Up.
Politics
Down And
Politician
Solutions Are Not The Answer.
Funny
Stupid
Dumb
The Man Of Thought Who Will Not Act Is Ineffective; The Man Of Action Who Will Not Think Is Dangerous.
Men
Thinking
Action
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
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
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.
Rain
Good Day
Eye
Television In Its Present Form...[is] The Opiate Of The People Of The United States.
People
United States
Opiates
The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family.
Children
Average
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
Anybody Who Wants To Be An Ambassador, Wants To Pay At Least $250,000.
Ambassadors
Want
Pay
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
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
I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.
Team
Ping Pong
Fruition
You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore, Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.
Presidential
Gentleman
Complaining
The Successful Leader Does Not Talk Down To People. He Lifts Them Up.
Successful
People
Leader
People Are Persuaded By Reason, But Moved By Emotion; [the Leader] Must Both Persuade Them And Move Them.
Moving
People
Leader
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
Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.
Military
Vietnam
United States
I Don't Give A Damn About The Civilians.
Giving
Politics
Damn
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.
Art
Sorrow
Spirit
The Jawbone Of An Ass Is Just As Dangerous A Weapon Today As In Sampson's Time.
Weapons
Today
Ass
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
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.
Country
Independent
Race
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
We Do Not Learn By Inference And Deduction And The Application Of Mathematics To Philosophy, But By Direct Intercourse And Sympathy.
Sympathy
Philosophy
Sensual
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
Idealism Without Realism Is Impotent. Realism Without Idealism Is Immoral.
Realism
Idealism
Immoral
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
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.
Country
Blessed
Animal
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
Capitalism Works Better Than It Sounds, While Socialism Sounds Better Than It Works.
Sound
Socialism
Capitalism
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
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
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
My Strong Point Is Not Rhetoric , It Isn't Showmanship, It Isn't Big Promises - Those Things That Create The Glamour And The Excitement That People Call Charisma And Warmth.
Strong
People
Promise
What Are Our Schools For If Not Indoctrination Against Communism?
School
Politics
Communism
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
...because There Are No Local Or State Boundaries To The Problems Of Our Environment, The Federal Government Must Play An Active, Positive Role. We Can And Will Set Standards. We Can And Will Exercise Leadership.
Exercise
Government
Play
The Italians . . . You Can't Find One Who Is Honest.
Honest
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
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.
War
Thinking
History
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
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
By Taking This Action, I Hope That I Will Have Hastened The Start Of The Healing.
Healing
Patriotic
Action
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.
People
President
Crooks
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
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
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
Neil And Buzz, I Am Talking To You By Telephone From The Oval Office At The White House, And This Certainly Has To Be The Most Historic Telephone Call Ever Made. . . . Because Of What You Have Done, The Heavens Have Become A Part Of Man's World. As You Talk To Us From The Sea Of Tranquility, It Inspires Us To Redouble Our Efforts To Bring Peace And Tranquility To Earth.
Moon
Men
Space
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.
Pain
Regret
War
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
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.
Art
Alive
World
Make Sure You Pay Your Taxes; Otherwise You Can Get In A Lot Of Trouble.
Pay
Trouble
Taxes
Any Change Is Resisted Because Bureaucrats Have A Vested Interest In The Chaos In Which They Exist.
Change
Chaos
Bureaucracy
I'm Not At Liberty To Discuss The Governments Knowledge Of Extraterrestrial Ufo's At This Time. I Am Still Personally Being Briefed On The Subject!
Government
Liberty
Ufo
Don't Get The Impression That You Arouse My Anger. You See, One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects.
Anger
Impression
Angry
Baseball Without Fans Is Like Jayne Mansfield Without A Sweater. Hang On, That Can Be Taken Two Ways.
Baseball
Taken
Two
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
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
Well, I Screwed It Up Real Good, Didn't I?
Real
Wells
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
The Jews Are Just A Very Aggressive And Abrasive And Obnoxious Personality.
Personality
Aggressive
Obnoxious
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.
Life
Mistake
Thinking
A Man Isn't Finnished When He Is Beaten He Is Finnished When He Quits
Men
Quitting
Beaten
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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