Richard Nixon

The campaigning that I can do this year is somewhat limited, due to the rather extraordinary requirements of the office of the Presidency at this time.

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

No group has sacrificed more to achieve this goal than the men and women who have proudly worn the American uniform.

Be proud of your country.

I am happy to be able to report that America is doing more for its veterans today than ever before.

Veterans have proved their ability to work and to work hard.

On June 11, 1971, I announced the Jobs for Veterans program with a target of providing one million Vietnam-era veterans with jobs and training placements by June 30, 1972.

Dollars, health care, educational opportunities can never fully repay the sacrifices our veterans have made, but they can at least serve as a beginning.

Most of the challenges that we face as a nation are bigger than party politics.

Today America is strong.

I have seen young officers and enlisted men who have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their own pockets to build schools and community centers, roads, orphanages for the people of South Vietnam.

I take great pleasure in signing it into law today.

We must never overlook every American's spiritual need for personal freedom.

In government, when a central authority in Washington tells people across the country how they should conduct their lives, that, too, is paternalism.

We believe that government closest to the people should have the greatest support.

Revenue sharing can help State and local government deliver again, closing the gap between promise and performance.

The American Revolution, in other words, is never finished; it must always be renewed, and we are helping to renew it today.

Give us the tools and we will do the job.

I am compelled to withhold my approval from S. 2770, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.

Freedom flourishes in Britain, in France, in the United States, and in countries that have our kinds of systems of those free countries all over the world.

There is no country in the world today in which there is a dictator and in which there is also a free trade union movement.

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

The AFL-CIO, from the dues of its members in this country, helps free labor unions around the world.

The British have a much better system, incidentally, speaking as one who has campaigned, going back 25 years, virtually every 2 years.

The kind of system you have in France is different from that in the United States.