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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Nov 2, 1972

Oklahoma is one State that I have always carried, and we are not going to start losing it now.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 22, 1972

What I am saying to you here now is: The vital importance is to get out the vote, to get it out up and down the line.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 22, 1972

There is nothing more lonely in a Presidential campaign than to be running for any other office.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 22, 1972

Four years ago, at your age, you could not vote. But predictions were made that the young voters will be on the other side. Let me say a majority of America's young voters are going to be on our side this year.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 16, 1972

Let me say also that I know you are here to examine an American political campaign.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 1, 1972

The man who is best qualified to run the campaign is Attorney General Mitchell.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 9, 1966

So while we were disappointed to see some of our friends lose, I can't think a President should be too unhappy after he has had the results that we have had in 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

The Republicans remember that the only way they have ever elected people is by scaring people.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 23, 1964

Under our democratic system, in less than 1 year from that day, you must decide whether I should step aside and whether I should move over, and whether you should have another leader.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 23, 1964

They tell me--I asked Nancy Gore this afternoon--someone told me that I was running about 55-45 down here in Tennessee.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 18, 1964

In particular, I urge that our first voters go to the polls proudly, knowing that the duty they perform is the price of the privilege they hold.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 27, 1964

For 175 years, through more than 40 national elections, the American people have said, 'No, no, no,' to people who would follow this kind of a course.

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