In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
Richard M. NixonThe ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.
Richard M. NixonTonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Richard M. NixonThe recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.
Richard M. Nixon