Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixonwas the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth9 January 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
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Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
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Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
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At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
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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.
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It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
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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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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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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
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There will be no whitewash in the White House.
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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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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.
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There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.