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It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word


William Zinsser

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SHLOMO AVINERI The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.
Yet...
When you have ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Avoid all needle drugs — the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
ARTHUR BREMER I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. STANTON EVANS Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Li...
DREW CAREY Like [former President Richard] Nixon says on one of his tapes, if the president does it, it is lega...
BOB WOODWARD Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.
DAVID PIETRUSZA Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry
WILFRED SHEED When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergat...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
ABBIE HOFFMAN Yes, President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, but a hundred years later, the Republican Party was...
DONNA BRAZILE What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.
BRUCE VILANCH Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
GERALD R. FORD In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
FABRIZIO MOREIRA During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
JEANE DIXON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
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BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
CHARLES COLSON I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the ter...
FRED F. FIELDING Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War)
PAUL HARVEY Rather himself is counting on a reversal of public opinion in the future, hoping to rehabilitate him...
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JAY ELECTRONICA I think this was a man perceived as being the grandfatherly figure who wound up becoming Richard Nix...
BRIAN WICE Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
MARTY RUBIN There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to l...
TABITHA ROBIN Throughout the most trying phase of the Case, Nixon and his family, and sometimes his parents, were ...
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Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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CARMELO ANTHONY Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
J. P. MCEVOY Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevel...
DREW CAREY Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating lev...
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MICHAEL KORDA Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
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PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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WAVY GRAVY When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equip...
KENZABURō ŌE I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the p...
TONY CAMPOLO Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his op...
ROGER AILES John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixo...
SUSAN ESTRICH The word 'lobby' is one of those loaded terms that sounds like a political dirty bag of tricks.
DONALD SEBASTIAN Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
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JAMES JOYCE Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame...
PAT PAULSEN I'm actually following the advice that Tom Dewey (who lost the 1948 presidential election to Harry T...
BILL BRADLEY Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
JEFF LINDSAY Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
ARTHUR BREMER Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER The very word perfection is full of flaw,because it can't exist. Or is that what perfection is? Flaw...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'iro...
DAVID LYNCH Jackie Robinson was honored in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. What a ceremony. It doubled the number of...
ARGUS HAMILTON In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, wa...
JOHN N. MITCHELL I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up...
BOB WOODWARD Feminism was a dirty word. Women's issues weren't being adequately covered.
RITA HENLEY JENSEN Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in ...
ARCHIBALD COX Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard...
NOAM CHOMSKY I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
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NEIL GAIMAN He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White Hou...
RALPH ABERNATHY Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...
ALAN MOORE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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CLAUDE JULIEN We need to understand the perspective of the other race, and we need to understand that compromise i...
CHARLES PICKERING No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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