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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.


Richard M. DeVos

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RICHARD M. NIXON People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a micro...
RICHARD M. NIXON Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
RICHARD M. NIXON I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we ...
RICHARD M. DALEY The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD M. NIXON By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours....
RICHARD M. NIXON The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re rea...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
RICHARD M. NIXON When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON They wanted to do it tomorrow because some of the ballplayers, you know, may be going out of town or...
RICHARD M. DALEY If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
RICHARD M. NIXON I want you to stonewall it.
RICHARD M. NIXON We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON What was Watergate? A little bugging! Richard M
RICHARD M. NIXON I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you'...
RICHARD M. NIXON By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD M. NIXON I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M. NIXON The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards
RICHARD M. NIXON If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anythin...
RICHARD M. NIXON You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
RICHARD M. NIXON I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong tea...
RICHARD M. NIXON My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that creat...
RICHARD M. NIXON I concede!
RICHARD M. NIXON What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
RICHARD M. NIXON The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD M. NIXON I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's thei...
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