American - President | January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994
Solutions are not the answer.
Richard M. Nixon
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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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Tell them to send everything that can fly.
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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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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
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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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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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I let the American people down.
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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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I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
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