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While I can't change what happened in the past, I can take responsibility for it,


Richard M. Daley

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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 It is the political change in international relations as well as a change in superpower fortunes whi...
RICHARD M. CONNAUGHTON The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God n...
RICHARD M. RORTY 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