Creative Quotations from Richard Nixon (1913-1994)

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Richard Nixon
(1913-1994) born on Jan 09

US president (37th), author. He was the first president to resign; he ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam, repaired relations with China, and initiated detente with the USSR.

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I would have made a good Pope.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth --to see it like it is, and tell it like it is --to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988.
R:	Speech, 9 Aug 1968.
A:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:	In "Before the Fall," pt. 3, ch. 4 by William Safire, 1975.
K:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.