"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
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.“
-Richard M. Nixon
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"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."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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