RMRichard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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02Undated

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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03Undated

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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06Undated

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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07Undated

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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08Undated

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

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09Undated

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.

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10Undated

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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11Undated

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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12Undated

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

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15Undated

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

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