Richard Nixon actually said...

Ladies and gentlemen, I know you will want to rise and drink to the health of the Prime Minister.

My proposal would also preserve the American concept of giving the patent to the person who is first to invent, because he is the individual...

Accordingly, I am today proposing that the Congress enact the Patent Modernization and Reform Act of 1973.

Our Founding Fathers understood the need for innovative thinking and wrote into the Constitution a means of encouraging invention--the paten...