Richard Nixon cytaty

Richard Milhous Nixon – amerykański polityk, 37. prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych, wcześniej 36. wiceprezydent. Był jedynym, jak dotąd prezydentem, który ustąpił ze stanowiska przed końcem kadencji.

Nixon był jedną z bardziej kontrowersyjnych postaci amerykańskiej sceny politycznej. Zapoczątkował politykę „odprężenia” w stosunkach Wschód-Zachód. W opinii wielu ekspertów pozwoliło to zebrać się osłabionym Stanom Zjednoczonym i zachwiać potęgą bloku wschodniego, bez czego jego późniejszy upadek, jeżeli nie niemożliwy, byłby znacznie trudniejszy i bardziej niebezpieczny.

Nixon ponosi jednak również bezpośrednią odpowiedzialność za aferę Watergate, która przez długi czas paraliżowała amerykańskie życie publiczne i wyrządziła mu ogromne szkody. To było bezpośrednim powodem ustąpienia Nixona z fotela prezydenta.

Historycy do dziś spierają się w ocenie tej postaci.



✵ 9. Styczeń 1913 – 22. Kwiecień 1994   •   Natępne imiona Richard Milhous Nixon, Ричард Никсон
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Richard Nixon słynne cytaty

„Gdy robi to prezydent, to jest to zgodne z prawem.”

spytany przez dziennikarza, czy bombardowania ludności cywilnej w Wietnamie, Laosie i Kambodży są zgodne z prawem.
Źródło: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 7

„Henry Kissinger: Emigracja Żydów ze Związku Radzieckiego nie jest celem polityki Stanów Zjednoczonych. A jeśli w ZSRR będą pakowali Żydów do komór gazowych, to nie jest to amerykańskie zmartwienie. Może humanitarne zmartwienie.
Richard Nixon: Wiem. Nie możemy z tego powodu wysadzić świata w powietrze.”

rozmowa, która odbyła się w marcu 1973 w Białym Domu po wizycie Goldy Meir. Premier Izraela zabiegała, żeby Waszyngton zmusił Moskwę, by zezwoliła prześladowanym Żydom na wyjazd z ZSRR.
Źródło: wyborcza.pl, 14 grudnia 2010 http://wyborcza.pl/dziennikarze/1,96904,8817489,Kompromitacja_Nixona_i_Kissingera.html#ixzz18BcRKu1t

Richard Nixon cytaty

„Za dwa dni Ho Chi Minh będzie mnie błagał o pokój.”

w 1969, po pogrożeniu Hanoi atakiem jądrowym.
Źródło: National Archives and Records Administration, cyt. za: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 7

„Wszystko, co lata poleci tam i da im łupnia!”

w 1970, rozkazując nasilenie ataków powietrznych na Wietnam.
Źródło: National Archives and Records Administration, cyt. za: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 7

„Zniszcz ich gospodarkę. Sfabrykuj powiązania Allende z Sowietami.”

do szefa CIA, gdy prezydent Chile ogłosił nacjonalizację przemysłu wydobywczego.
Źródło: National Archives and Records Administration, cyt. za: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 7

„Nie jestem oszustem.”

I’m not a crook. (ang.)
na konferencji prasowej 17 listopada 1973.
Źródło: I Am Not a Crook, emersonkent.com http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/i_am_not_a_crook.htm

„Och… ten to już długo nie pociągnie.”

o prezydencie Francji Georges’u Pompidou.

„Uruchomienie Rozgłośni Polskiej Radia Wolna Europa było największym sukcesem w ideologicznej zimnej wojnie Zachodu ze Wschodem.”

Źródło: Radio Wolna Europa - największy sukces w ideologicznej zimnej wojnie https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/529/Artykul/597061,Radio-Wolna-Europa-najwiekszy-sukces-w-ideologicznej-zimnej-wojnie, polskieradio.pl, 4 maja 2012.

Richard Nixon: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)
Kontekst: 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.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)
Kontekst: 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

“The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game,”

1970s, Remarks on Being Reelected (1972)
Kontekst: 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.

“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”

1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)
Kontekst: 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 greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.”

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" was later used as Nixon's epitaph.
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
Kontekst: 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.

“Well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "Well, what did you use the fund for, Senator? Why did you have to have it?" Let me tell you in just a word how a Senate office operates. First of all, a Senator gets $15,000 a year in salary. He gets enough money to pay for one trip a year, a round trip, that is, for himself, and his family between his home and Washington, DC. And then he gets an allowance to handle the people that work in his office to handle his mail. And the allowance for my State of California, is enough to hire 13 people. And let me say, incidentally, that that allowance is not paid to the Senator. It is paid directly to the individuals that the Senator puts on his payroll. But all of these people and all of these allowances are for strictly official business; business, for example, when a constituent writes in and wants you to go down to the Veteran's Administration and get some information about his GI policy — items of that type, for example. But there are other expenses that are not covered by the Government. And I think I can best discuss those expenses by asking you some questions.Do you think that when I or any other senator makes a political speech, has it printed, should charge the printing of that speech and the mailing of that speech to the taxpayers? Do you think, for example, when I or any other Senator makes a trip to his home State to make a purely political speech that the cost of that trip should be charged to the taxpayers? Do you think when a Senator makes political broadcasts or political television broadcasts, radio or television, that the expense of those broadcasts should be charged to the taxpayers? Well I know what your answer is. It's the same answer that audiences give me whenever I discuss this particular problem: The answer is no. The taxpayers shouldn't be required to finance items which are not official business but which are primarily political business.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)

“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (3 November 1969) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2303&st=&st1=
1960s

“But by God, there are exceptions. But Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on us.”

On Jews, to H. R. Haldeman, as quoted in "Nixon: I Am Not an Anti-Semite" by Timothy Noah, in Slate (7 October 1999) http://www.slate.com/id/1003783/
1990s
Wariant: But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on you. Am I wrong or right?

“[Keynesian]I am now a Keynesian in economics.”

Just after a broadcast interview with four newsmen (6 January 1971), according to Howard K. Smith, one of the interviewers. "Nixon Has Shifted to Ideas of Keyness: ABC Commentator" http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=awpdAAAAIBAJ&pg=916,487551
1970s

“Put 800 million Chinese to work under a decent system and they will be the leaders of the world.”

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/pdf/OnChina-Chapter9.pdf
2000s

“On Christmas Eve, during my terrible personal ordeal of the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, which after 12 years of war finally helped to bring America peace with honor, I sat down just before midnight. I wrote out some of my goals for my second term as President.
Let me read them to you:”

To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace.
To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunity — of equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American.
To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor.
To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreams — not in fear, but in hope — proud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world.
1970s, First Watergate Speech (1973)

“And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.”

State of the Union Address (30 January 1974) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4327
1970s

“What it is, is it’s the insecurity. It’s the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that’s why they have to prove things.”

Conversation on Jewish aides as quoted on tapes recorded February-March 1973 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/national/20101211_NIXON_AUDIO/1_INFERIORITY.mp3 "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)
1970s

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”

Tape 407, Conversation No. 407-18, 32:08 http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/tape407/407-018.mp3
On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, June 23 2009, retrieved June 23 2009
1970s, Tape transcripts (1973)

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