All Richard M. Nixon Quotes
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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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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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.
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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