Ричард Милхаус Никсон цитаты
Ричард Милхаус Никсон
Дата рождения: 9. Январь 1913
Дата смерти: 22. Апрель 1994
Другие имена: Richard Milhous Nixon, Ричард Никсон
Ри́чард Ми́лхауз Ни́ксон — 37-й президент Соединённых Штатов Америки , 36-й вице-президент США . Первый и единственный президент США, ушедший в отставку до окончания срока.
Родился в Калифорнии. Став юристом, в 1937 году вернулся в родной штат, чтобы заниматься юридической практикой. В 1942 году, получив предложение работать на федеральное правительство, вместе с женой переезжает в Вашингтон. В годы Второй мировой войны служил в военно-морских силах США. В 1946 году был избран в Палату представителей США от Калифорнии, а в 1950 году в сенат. В ходе дела Элджера Хисса Никсон приобретает антикоммунистическую репутацию и национальную известность. После выборов президента в 1952 году, на которых победил Дуайт Эйзенхауэр, Никсон занимает пост вице-президента. После восьми лет в этом кресле, в 1960 году участвует в выборах президента, однако с минимальной разницей уступает Джону Кеннеди. В 1962 году также безуспешно участвует в выборах губернатора Калифорнии. В 1968 году Никсон повторно участвует в выборах президента страны и на этот раз побеждает.
Цитаты Ричард Милхаус Никсон
„Я стремлюсь к президентской власти не потому, что она дает мне шанс кем-то стать, а потому, что это шанс что-то сделать.“
— Ричард Милхаус Никсон
I seek the Presidency not be-cause it offers me a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do some-thing.
„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.“
— Richard Nixon
1950s, Checkers speech (1952), Context: p>That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. 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.One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something — a gift — after the election. A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was. It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.</p
„And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.“
— Richard Nixon
1950s, Checkers speech (1952), Context: p>That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. 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.One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something — a gift — after the election. A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was. It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.</p
„In a civilized nation no man can excuse his crime against the person or property of another by claiming that he, too, has been a victim of injustice. To tolerate that is to invite anarchy“
— Richard Nixon
1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967), Context: There can be no right to revolt in this society; no right to demonstrate outside the law, and, in Lincoln's words, 'no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law'. In a civilized nation no man can excuse his crime against the person or property of another by claiming that he, too, has been a victim of injustice. To tolerate that is to invite anarchy.
„The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game,“
— Richard Nixon
1970s, Remarks on Being Reelected (1972), Context: The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game, and in the great game of life, and particularly the game of politics, what is important is that on either side more Americans voted this year than ever before, and the fact that you won or you lost must not keep you from keeping in the great game of politics in the years ahead, because the better competition we have between the two parties, between the two men running for office, whatever office that may be, means that we get the better people and the better programs for our country.
„The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.“
— Richard Nixon
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969), Context: What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America — the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.
If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind.
This is our summons to greatness.
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" was later used as Nixon's epitaph.
„Bill Rogers has got — to his credit it’s a decent feeling — but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he’s been in New York. He says well, ‘They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.’ So forth and so on. My own view is I think he’s right if you’re talking in terms of 500 years.
What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.“
— Richard Nixon
1970s, Conversation with secretary Rose Mary Woods on tapes recorded February-March 1973 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/national/20101211_NIXON_AUDIO/3_VIETNAM.mp3 on tapes recorded February-March 1973; as quoted in "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/politics/11nixon.html, by Adam Nagourney, New York Times (10 December 2010); with sound recording http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/national/20101211_NIXON_AUDIO/4_BLACKS.mp3.
„Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
This can be such a moment.
Forces now are converging that make possible, for the first time, the hope that many of man's deepest aspirations can at last be realized. The spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken centuries.
In throwing wide the horizons of space, we have discovered new horizons on earth.
For the first time, because the people of the world want peace, and the leaders of the world are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace.“
— Richard Nixon
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
„We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force.
We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
We shall do our share in defending peace and freedom in the world. But we shall expect others to do their share.
The time has passed when America will make every other nation's conflict our own, or make every other nation's future our responsibility, or presume to tell the people of other nations how to manage their own affairs.“
— Richard Nixon
1970s, Second Inaugural Address (1973)
