Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.


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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
RICHARD M. NIXON
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of ...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite diffe...
RICHARD M. RORTY
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American peo...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the d...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not...
RICHARD M. DALEY
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignati...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someon...
RICHARD M. NIXON
People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a micro...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we ...
RICHARD M. DALEY
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD M. NIXON
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours....
RICHARD M. NIXON
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And ...
RICHARD M. NIXON
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re rea...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
RICHARD M. NIXON
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON
They wanted to do it tomorrow because some of the ballplayers, you know, may be going out of town or...
RICHARD M. DALEY
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I want you to stonewall it.
RICHARD M. NIXON
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON
What was Watergate? A little bugging! Richard M
RICHARD M. NIXON
I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you'...
RICHARD M. NIXON
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape...
RICHARD M. NIXON
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M. NIXON
The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards
RICHARD M. NIXON
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anythin...
RICHARD M. NIXON
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong tea...
RICHARD M. NIXON
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that creat...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I concede!
RICHARD M. NIXON
What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
RICHARD M. NIXON
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD M. NIXON
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD M. NIXON
Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's thei...
RICHARD M. DALEY