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A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. (Richard Nixon)
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. View quote
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We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped. View quote
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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. View quote
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I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. View quote
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Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. View quote
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At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. View quote
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Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. View quote
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Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second-rate president. View quote
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I would have made a good Pope. View quote
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I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped. (Richard Nixon)
What was Watergate A little bugging. View quote
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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. View quote
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Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. View quote
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back. View quote
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Don't try to take on a new personality it doesn't work. View quote
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When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. View quote
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The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it. View quote
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For years politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. View quote
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Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. View quote
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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard. (Richard Nixon)
The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment. View quote
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I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park. View quote
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The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment. View quote
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They say, Gee, you look great. That means they thought you looked like hell before. View quote
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