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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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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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Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?
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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
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Bring us together again.
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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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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Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.
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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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The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.
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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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Don't try to take on a new personality it doesn't work.
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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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