Quote #18
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
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- I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
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- The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
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- This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.