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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Richard M. Nixon
Sports, Winning, Will To Win

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

Richard M. Nixon
People, Pay, Causes
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

Richard M. Nixon
Believe, Academic Freedom, Viewpoints

The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship.

Richard M. Nixon
Ocean, Water, Environmental
Source: www.truth-out.org

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

Richard M. Nixon
Art, Sorrow, Spirit

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Long, People
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.19, Best Books on

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 a dog.

Richard M. Nixon
Dog, Kings, Would Be

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Balance, Faces
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.653, Best Books on

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Richard M. Nixon
White, House, White House
1973 Statement on the Watergate affair,17 Apr.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard M. Nixon
Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard M. Nixon
Military, War, Planning
Address before the National Association of Manufacturers, New York City, December 8, 1967.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon
Sympathy, Philosophy, Sensual

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

Richard M. Nixon
Differences, United States, Fifty

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Democracy, World
"Real Peace". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1983.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon
History, Winner, Beats

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

Richard M. Nixon
Military

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Richard M. Nixon
Reading, Exercise, Television Watching

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

Richard M. Nixon
Goal, Limits, Resources

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Richard M. Nixon
Change, Chaos, Bureaucracy

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

Richard M. Nixon
Life, Mistake, Thinking
Speech at press conference, 17 Nov. 1973, in New York Times 18 Nov. 1973, p. 62

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

Richard M. Nixon
Mean, Years, Balance

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Richard M. Nixon
Mistake, Years, Want

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Richard M. Nixon
War, West, Losing

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

Richard M. Nixon
Crooks
Source: www.nbcnews.com

This is a great day for France!

Richard M. Nixon
Funny, Dumb, Great Day