Richard Nixon actually said...

For years, we in the United States have pursued the illusion that we alone could remake continents.

Freedom, justice, a chance for each of our people to live a better and more abundant life—these are goals to which I am unshakably committed...

What I hope we can achieve, therefore, is a more mature partnership in which all voices are heard and none is predominant.

It has taught us that each nation, and each region, must be true to its own character.