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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
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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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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I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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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.
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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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We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.
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Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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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.
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When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
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Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
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No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.
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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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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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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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