Richard M. Nixon Quotes

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

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The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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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.

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Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support.

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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.

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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits.

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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

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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...

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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another NAMEvoices.

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We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when youre really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.

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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.

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I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

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This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

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