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" Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. "
Richard M. Nixon
Black
Want
Nation
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" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "
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Rules
Found
Played
" Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. "
Richard M. Nixon
Patriotism
Passion
Freedom
" Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. "
Richard M. Nixon
They Say
Say
Like
" Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. "
Richard M. Nixon
Which
Government
President
" The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer. "
Richard M. Nixon
Political
Government
American
" The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. "
Richard M. Nixon
Memory
Sky
Red
" Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. "
Richard M. Nixon
You
Great
History
" Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. "
Richard M. Nixon
Dignity
Much
Presidency
" I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. "
Richard M. Nixon
History
Change
Great
" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "
Richard M. Nixon
You
History
Innocent
" Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. "
Richard M. Nixon
Who
Destroy
Yourself
" Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. "
Richard M. Nixon
Moon
Try
Time
" As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. "
Richard M. Nixon
Peace
Words
Honor
" President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. "
Richard M. Nixon
President
Born
Fact
" A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. "
Richard M. Nixon
Policy
Never
Forget
" Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. "
Richard M. Nixon
You
Anger
Angry
" Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. "
Richard M. Nixon
Us
Negotiation
Confrontation
" If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? "
Richard M. Nixon
Think
World
Who
" The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. "
Richard M. Nixon
Fire
Finest
Through
" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "
Richard M. Nixon
Says
Man
Forget
" Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. "
Richard M. Nixon
Mountain
Know
Deepest
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Easy
History
Life
" Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. "
Richard M. Nixon
Year
Force
Everything
" By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. "
Richard M. Nixon
Time
You
Home
" People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. "
Richard M. Nixon
People
Love
School
" I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. "
Richard M. Nixon
Myself
Down
Resigning
" The press is the enemy. "
Richard M. Nixon
Enemy
Communication
Press
" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "
Richard M. Nixon
Second
Politics
Finishing
" The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. "
Richard M. Nixon
Kind
Lonely
Man
" Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? "
Richard M. Nixon
Up
Well
Good