Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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

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• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Gang

• We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Language
  • Same

• I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Records
  • Hit

• The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Thoughts

• We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Fans
  • Honest

• This is a long-term problem and we know it will take a while to fix.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Long
  • Problem
  • Fix

• Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Singing

• Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Identity

• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Risk

• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • Today

• We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Kids

• I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Great
  • Together
  • Humanity

• The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Heaven
  • Choices
  • Darkness

• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• The problem comes when readers take these two accounts and combine them into one overarching account, in which Jesus says, does, and experiences everything narrated in both Gospels. When that is done, the messages of both Mark and Luke get completely lost and glossed over. Jesus is no longer in deep agony, as in Mark (since he is confident as in Luke), and he is no longer calm and in control as in Luke (since he is in despair as in Mark). He is somehow all things at once. Also

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Jesus

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

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • President
  • Illegal