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
country strong air
We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.
air water garbage
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.
land air water
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?
air space water
Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.
jobs destiny air
The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity-is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.
people risen
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.
enjoy pleasing
You have to enjoy pleasing other people. I really do enjoy pleasing other people.
press
One thing, Ron, old boy. We won't have to have any more press conferences, and we won't even have to tell them that either!
fish men nature promising wasteful
Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.
bring efforts heavens inspires peace sea talk
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
cannot learn shouting stop until
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another #NAME?voices.
ask fellow great majority silent
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
witty humorous profound
I would have made a good pope.
silly mean political
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.