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Politics Quotes by Richard M. Nixon
- Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people…
- I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead…
- The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
- Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
- The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
- I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.
- I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.
- I don't give a damn about the civilians.
- Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
- I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.
- Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to…
- I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
- Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
- Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
- You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't,…
- Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
- Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
- During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by…
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