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When The Strongest Nation In The World Can Be Tied Up For Years In A War With No End In Sight, When The Richest Nation In The World Can't Manage Its Own Economy, When The Nation With The Greatest Tradition Of The Rule Of Law Is Plagued By Unprecedented Lawlessness, And When The President Of The United States Cannot Travel Abroad Or To Any Major City At Home Without Fear Of A Hostile Demonstration - Then It's Time For New Leadership For The United States Of America.

-Richard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon

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When The Strongest Nation In The World Can Be Tied Up For Years In A War With No End In Sight, When The Richest Nation In The World Can't Manage Its Own Economy, When The Nation With The Greatest Tradition Of The Rule Of Law Is Plagued By Unprecedented Lawlessness, And When The President Of The United States Cannot Travel Abroad Or To Any Major City At Home Without Fear Of A Hostile Demonstration - Then It's Time For New Leadership For The United States Of America.

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

Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.

For Among Nations - As Within Nations - The Soundest Unity Is That Which Respects Diversity, And The Strongest Cohesion Is That Which Rejects Coercion.

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.

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

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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.

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

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

As You Know, The Separation Of Church And State Is Not Subject To Discussion Or Alteration. Under Our Constitution No Church Or Religion Can Be Supported By The U.s. Government. We Maintain Freedom Of Religion So That An American Can Either Worship In The Church Of His Choice Or Choose To Go To No Church At All.

History Is A Pathetic Junkyard Of Broken Treaties.

The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family.

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does. A Man Is Not Finished When He's Defeated. He's Finished When He Quits.

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

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.

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.

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.

To Me, The Most Unhappy People In The World Are The People ... In Palm Beach- Going To Parties Every Night. Playing Golf Every Afternoon, Then Bridge. [they Have] No Purpose.

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

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

You Must Never Be Satisfied With Losing. You Must Get Angry, Terribly Angry, About Losing. But The Mark Of The Good Loser Is That He Takes His Anger Out On Himself And Not His Victorious Opponents Or On His Teammates.

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

...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.

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

You Can't Depend On The Man Who Made The Mess To Clean It Up.

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

If Some Of My Judgments Were Wrong - And Some Were Wrong - They Were Made In What I Believed At The Time To Be The Best Interest Of The Nation.

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.

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

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.

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

No Event In American History Is More Misunderstood Than The Vietnam War. It Was Misreported Then, And It Is Misremembered Now.

If You Think The United States Has Stood Still, Who Built The Largest Shopping Center In The World?

... 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.

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.

What Are Our Schools For If Not Indoctrination Against Communism?

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

The People's Right To Change What Does Not Work Is One Of The Greatest Principles In Our System Of Government

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

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

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

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.

Extremists On The Left Tend To Be Just As Critical Of Pragmatism As Extremists On The Right.

Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.

The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

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.

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 Let The American People Down.

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.

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

Economic Power Is Not The Same As Strength Of National Character. Our Country May Be Rich In Goods, But We Are Poor In Spirit.

Any Culture Which Can Put A Man On The Moon Is Capable Of Gathering All The Nations Of The Earth In Peace, Justice And Concord.

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

Anything Can Happen

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

God, Of Course, Is The Greatest Philosopher Of All.

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.

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

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

The Jawbone Of An Ass Is Just As Dangerous A Weapon Today As In Sampson's Time.

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

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.

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.

We Are Not Spending The Federal Government's Money, We Are Spending The Taxpayer's Money, And It Must Be Spent N A Way Which Guarantees His Money's Worth And Yields The Fullest Possible Benefit To The People Being Helped.

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

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