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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 14, 1960

I want to speak now of another kind of strength that is more important than all these, that will be more decisive in this great struggle than all these, and I speak of the moral and spiritual fiber of this country that makes it strong.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 14, 1960

Which of the two candidates for the Vice Presidency and the Presidency can best provide the leadership for America and the free world in these next 4 years which will keep the peace without surrender and which will extend the freedom…

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 14, 1960

We must have firmness and nonbelligerence and we must have diplomacy in which the President does not answer insult with insult, but maintains the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 14, 1960

To maintain that peace we, of course, must do things which are essential to give us the instrument which will keep the peace and they are, of course, the ones that are familiar to you.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 13, 1960

Whoever is President, I think, must examine any invitation to the summit with the greatest of care.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 13, 1960

I do not think there was a religious issue in fact, and I would do everything I could to keep it out.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 13, 1960

I don't believe any good purpose is served by pointing to some of the State Department officials who were doing the best they could and who at the time would have justification for saying what they did if things had turned out differently.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 13, 1960

The foreign policy critics made the same charge in 1956 when President Eisenhower was running.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 13, 1960

I do believe, and I won't mind going this far, that in attacking the problem we should set a time in which we intend to deal with it.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 12, 1960

The time has come to put greater emphasis on new starts for sound multiple-purpose projects.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 12, 1960

I will only say this: We can be proud of our tremendous progress in reclamation and power in comparison with any country; but this is especially true compared with the Soviet Union.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 12, 1960

A train just doesn't cover enough territory fast enough in the State of California.

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