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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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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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.
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They say, Gee, you look great. That means they thought you looked like hell before.
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Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth
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...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
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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.
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Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
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The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
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You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.
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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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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
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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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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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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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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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Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
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As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
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