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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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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...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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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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Solutions are not the answer.
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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
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I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
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Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
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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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Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
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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.
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They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
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I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.
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