#pre

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#film #first #first lady #forever #frame

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#assigned #branch #doctrine #executive #exercises

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cannot #get #gets #needs #president

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#become #center #during #else #everything

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, take my job. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #even #got #i #innocent

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#commodity #demands #eternally #freedom #government

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today. ↗

— George Noory

#calculated #creating #currency #deficit #deficits

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #cake #ceo #company #enormously