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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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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I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)
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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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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.
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There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.
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