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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.


Richard M. Nixon

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RICHARD M. NIXON Solutions are not the answer.
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON The sky is no longer the limit.
RICHARD M. NIXON When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he...
RICHARD M. NIXON When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are t...
RICHARD M. NIXON You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
RICHARD M. NIXON I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Monda...
RICHARD M. NIXON The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes with healing...
RICHARD M. NIXON So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice becau...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pr...
RICHARD M. NIXON Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for pri...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dea...
RICHARD M. NIXON My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part o...
RICHARD M. NIXON The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Govern...
RICHARD M. NIXON People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
RICHARD M. NIXON If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
RICHARD M. NIXON Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate p...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then...
RICHARD NIXON Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
RICHARD NIXON You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
RICHARD NIXON All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revol...
RICHARD NIXON We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent....
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in Novem...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts lik...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolut...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burd...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can pro...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he i...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for m...
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