Richard Nixon actually said...

The further away government is from people, the stronger government becomes and the weaker people become.

Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.

01/21/1971

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Jobs are still increasing at the fastest rate since 1956--at a rate twice as fast as the rate of growth of the population.

As long as I am President, I will never let America become the second strongest nation in the world.

It is fitting that it should be here, in California.

We want peace that will last, not peace that will be simply for a little while.