My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a gl...
RICHARD M. RORTY Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite diffe...
RICHARD M. RORTY The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God n...
RICHARD M. RORTY There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
RICHARD M. RORTY The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman t...
RICHARD RORTY Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai...
RICHARD RORTY The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a langua...
RICHARD RORTY Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
RICHARD RORTY There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
RICHARD RORTY The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
RICHARD RORTY the utopian social hope which sprang up in nineteenth-century Europe is still the noblest imaginativ...
RICHARD RORTY Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity ...
RICHARD RORTY Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade un...
RICHARD RORTY We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enou...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next...
RICHARD M. DALEY Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpe...
RICHARD M. NIXON Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates bla...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of M...
RICHARD M. DALEY So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we he...
RICHARD M. DALEY Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years ...
RICHARD M. DALEY I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago ...
RICHARD M. DALEY If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects...
RICHARD M. NIXON Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope...
RICHARD M. DEVOS The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerou...
RICHARD M. NIXON There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise ...
RICHARD M. NIXON A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD M. NIXON Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD M. NIXON There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You...
RICHARD M. NIXON Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
RICHARD M. NIXON Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hop...
RICHARD M. DEVOS Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life ...
RICHARD M. DEVOS If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly corre...
RICHARD M. DEVOS If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
RICHARD M. DEVOS The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try...
RICHARD M. DEVOS The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
RICHARD M. DEVOS Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
RICHARD M. DEVOS You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
RICHARD M. NIXON If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
RICHARD M. NIXON Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
RICHARD M. NIXON Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope...
RICHARD M DEVOS I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD M. NIXON If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts li...
RICHARD M. NIXON I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD M. NIXON Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others m...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government...
RICHARD M. NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD M. NIXON He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
RICHARD M. NIXON It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it i...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent....
RICHARD M. NIXON Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's f...
RICHARD M. NIXON Voters quickly forget what a man says.
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinc...
RICHARD M. NIXON Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hop...
RICHARD M. DEVOS It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the ...
RICHARD M. NIXON You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conferenc...
RICHARD M. NIXON We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
RICHARD M. NIXON If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for any...
RICHARD M. NIXON Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD M. NIXON Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
RICHARD M. NIXON Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD M. NIXON Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my pre...
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
RICHARD M. NIXON In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the m...
RICHARD M. NIXON When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
RICHARD M. NIXON The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
RICHARD M. NIXON Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qua...
RICHARD M. NIXON It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you...
RICHARD M. DEVOS I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city go...
RICHARD M. DALEY We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another interna...
RICHARD M. DALEY I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that...
RICHARD M. NIXON Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
RICHARD M. NIXON Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises h...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven ho...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD M. NIXON I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're real...
RICHARD M. NIXON In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyho...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don'...
RICHARD M. NIXON The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both pol...
RICHARD M. NIXON The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see...
RICHARD M. NIXON No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resig...
RICHARD M. NIXON I am not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earn...
RICHARD M. NIXON We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by ...
RICHARD M. NIXON A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconcilia...
RICHARD M. NIXON And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elepha...
RICHARD M. DALEY The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot ...
RICHARD M. DEVOS I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I...
RICHARD M. NIXON This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for...
RICHARD M. NIXON Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
RICHARD M. NIXON Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
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 When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There a...
RICHARD M. NIXON If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
RICHARD M. DEVOS I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he st...
RICHARD M. NIXON I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Ita...
RICHARD M. NIXON Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
RICHARD M. NIXON 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 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 If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
RICHARD M. DEVOS 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 It is the political change in international relations as well as a change in superpower fortunes whi...
RICHARD M. CONNAUGHTON What else do you expect from them? ... Let's talk about this team. ... Think about that, why would t...
RICHARD M. DALEY Everybody's for a form of smoking ban,
RICHARD M. DALEY Well, I wore a Cubs hat, ... Remember, these are baseball games.
RICHARD M. DALEY Rosa Parks changed the course of history, not only for African Americans, but for all of America.  ...
RICHARD M. DALEY Sure, I think everybody's nervous, ... Overall, look where the team was. No one expected them to be ...
RICHARD M. DALEY While I can't change what happened in the past, I can take responsibility for it,
RICHARD M. DALEY Without his leadership, we might not be here today,
RICHARD M. DALEY I mean why? Why do you have to bring that up?
RICHARD M. DALEY I think they (the White Sox) just should play the same game they played all year. They played loose,...
RICHARD M. DALEY It would be incomplete for the city's proposal to deal with air congestion and not traffic congestio...
RICHARD M. DALEY With the appointment of Inspector General Hoffman, anyone who tries to scam the government -- either...
RICHARD M. DALEY People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
RICHARD M. NIXON Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my preside...
RICHARD M. NIXON I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD M. NIXON A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON There was some really good food out there. There was a really good quail dish and ribs.
RICHARD M. NIXON We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extingu...
RICHARD M. NIXON There will be no whitewash in the White House.
RICHARD M. NIXON Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished whe...
RICHARD M. NIXON For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways / to the voices of quiet ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I t...
RICHARD M. NIXON As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to...the American p...
RICHARD M. NIXON This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
RICHARD M. NIXON One thing, Ron, old boy. We won't have to have any more press conferences, and we won't even have to...
RICHARD M. NIXON For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one....
RICHARD M. NIXON I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
RICHARD M. NIXON I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ...
RICHARD M. NIXON In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I do fo...
RICHARD M. NIXON The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
RICHARD M. NIXON [The public lands represent] in a sense,the breathing space of the nation.
RICHARD M. NIXON Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished w...
RICHARD M. NIXON People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned e...
RICHARD M. NIXON The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so...
RICHARD M. NIXON President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortun...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
RICHARD M. NIXON Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm some...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that wer...
RICHARD M. NIXON I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territor...
RICHARD M. NIXON I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate ...
RICHARD M. NIXON We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another #NAME?voices.
RICHARD M. NIXON This is my first cook-off. Actually, the people at the track have been really good to me ... I reall...
RICHARD M. NIXON