Richard Nixon quotes - page 9

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely. (Richard Nixon)
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world. View quote
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. View quote
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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. View quote
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Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. View quote
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. View quote
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The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work. View quote
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs. View quote
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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. View quote
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For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth. View quote
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I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation. (Richard Nixon)
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. View quote
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided. View quote
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I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country. View quote
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My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. View quote
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Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of America's most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours. View quote
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The public lands represent in a sense,the breathing space of the nation. View quote
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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. View quote
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. View quote
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. View quote
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I think of what happened to Greece and Rome, and you see what is left-only the pillars. What has happened, of course, is that the great civilizations of the past, as they have become wealthy, as they have lost their will to live, to improve, they then have become subject to decadence that eventually destroys the civilization. The United States is now reaching that period. (Richard Nixon)
Nixon: The French have had a helluva time and they're half-Latin, and all of Latin America is not any good at government. They either go to one extreme or another. It's either a family, ah, three extremes: family, oligarchy, or a dictatorship; or a dictatorship on the right, or one on the left, very seldom in the center. Now, having said all that, however, as you compare the Latin dictatorships, governments, etc., and their forms of government, they at least do it in their way. It is an orderly way which works relatively well. They have been able to run the damn place. Looking at the black countries, of course, there are only two old ones-Haiti is an old one and Liberia is a very old one. View quote
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Undoubtedly the most unattractive women in the world are the Indian women, undoubtedly... The most sexless, nothing, these people. I mean, people say, what about the Black Africans? Well, you can see something, the vitality there, I mean they have a little animallike charm, but God, those Indians, ack, pathetic. Uch... To me, they turn me off. How the hell do they turn other people on, Henry? Tell me. [...] They turn me off. They are repulsive and it's just easy to be tough with them. View quote
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[discussing the politics of clemency for Watergate conspirators:]. View quote
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For more than a quarter of a century in public life I have shared in the turbulent history of this era. I have fought for what I believed in. I have tried to the best of my ability to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me. View quote
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