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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Richard M. Nixon
Real, Wells
1974 Comment to Chief of Staff Alexander M Haig and Press Secretary Ronald L Zeigler, 3 Aug, on beginning work on his resignation address. Recalled in RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978).

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Richard M. Nixon
Israel, Machines, Television

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.

Richard M. Nixon
Keys, Faces, Facts

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Richard M. Nixon
4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Richard M. Nixon
Lying, Presidential, Know How

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, People
"No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Evil, Justice

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Richard M. Nixon
Winning, Risk, Suffering

With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

Richard M. Nixon
Leadership, Character, Men

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Richard M. Nixon
Art, Men, Law

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Richard M. Nixon
Personality, Aggressive, Obnoxious
Interview with Charles W. Colson, graphics8.nytimes.com. February 13, 1973.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

Richard M. Nixon
Bunch, Jew, Immoral
Richard M. Nixon's address to Bob Haldeman (February 1, 1972) as quoted in Counterpunch, March 12, 2002.

The press is the enemy.

Richard M. Nixon
Enemy, Journalism, Presses
Conversation Among President Nixon, the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), and the President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), history.state.gov. December 14, 1972.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Richard M. Nixon
Cabal
A remark repeated by Nixon several times in private conversations (circa 1971) as quoted in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein "The Final Days", May 1976.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Richard M. Nixon
Responsibility, Three, Speak

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon
Positive, Courage, Disappointment
Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

Richard M. Nixon
New York, Destruction, Should

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

Richard M. Nixon
Leadership, War, Home

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Nests, Strange

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

Richard M. Nixon
Believe, Government, Guy

I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.

Richard M. Nixon
Strong, Mean, Marijuana

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

Richard M. Nixon
Christian, War, Pride
Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.126, Best Books on

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M. Nixon
Military, War, Misunderstood
"No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Richard M. Nixon
President, Doe, Illegal
"Memo to Sunday Talkers: Please Get the Answers the American People Cannot" by Rep. John Conyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2006.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

Richard M. Nixon
Quality, Care, Available
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.49, Best Books on