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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#center #largest #shopping #states #still

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#any #change #control #destiny #direction

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#accused #being #described #did #free

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#floors #much #presidency #scrubbing

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american people #directly #entitled #hear #him

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#asked #because #loss #make #mark

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#fellow #fellow americans #great #i #majority

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#been #before #body #completed #effective

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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