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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard M. Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.
Richard M. Nixon
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
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Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.
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Bring us together again.
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As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.
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Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.
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With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
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The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.. . . I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
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Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship.
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
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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.
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I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.
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Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
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I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.
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What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
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