Richard Nixon actually said...

I am pleased that District voters have chosen to set the city firmly on the path toward local self-government.

Statement About Voter Approval of the District of Columbia Home Rule Charter

05/07/1974

More Richard Nixon Quotes

I can assure you of one thing: We will make our mistakes.

It was more difficult to move six secretaries from the Senate Office Building to the Capitol than it was to move a whole division of Marines...

We know that in this room are the people without whose support we could not have achieved the goal which we finally realized.

We are never going to promise something we cannot produce.