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[discussing the politics of clemency for Watergate conspirators:] No — it is wrong that's for sure.
Tape transcripts (1973)
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world, the Lloyd Shopping Center right here?
Within groups, there are geniuses. There are geniuses within black groups. There are more within Asian groups ... This is knowledge that is better not to know.
Tape transcripts (1971)
I can't ever say that, but I believe it.
I am now a Keynesian in economics.
The Jewish cabal is out to get me.
A remark repeated by Nixon several times in private conversations (1971)
I should say this — that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.
Checkers speech (1952)
There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.
Tape transcripts (1973)
I have respect for those who have dedicated their lives to public service. I have spent most of my life actually, my adult life, working in one capacity or another in a public service capacity.
Department of the Interior remarks (1969)
Change without continuity can be anarchy. Change with continuity can mean progress. And continuity without change can mean no progress.
Swearing In of Warren E. Burger as Chief Justice of the United States (1969)
Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?
If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.
They're Born That Way (1971)
Screw State! The hell with them!
Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, were all homosexuals. Nero, of course, was, in a public way, in with a boy in Rome.
They're Born That Way (1971)
We need you. The Nation needs you. With the help of a young, vigorous American generation we can meet the great challenges that America has to meet in this last third of a century.
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquility to Earth.
Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies (2010)
The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.
Tape transcripts (1972)
We are bound together, too, by the economic factors that two great and productive peoples have produced in our two countries. And we know that a strong and productive German economy is essential for a strong free world economy, just as is a strong economy in the United States.
I don't think women should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.