Eisenhower Nixon Quotes

#1. When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#2. Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Ron Paul

#3. Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#4. I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.

Dita Von Teese

#5. All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#6. Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#7. There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Andrew Tobias

#8. Nothing could be more personal than a tape.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#9. First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#10. I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

Pete Rose

#11. My neighbor raised a shaking index finger to point at the saguaro. "That moving cactus ... and the big bug ... and you, you spooky bastard. What are you?
I stuffed my hands in my pockets and grinned winningly at him. "Why, I'm the Antichrist, of course.

Kevin Hearne

#12. I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

Bayard Rustin

#13. I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

Jim Gaffigan

#14. There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#15. If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Jeff Greenfield

#16. He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.

Glen Duncan

#17. The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

Nino Gruettke

#18. But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Stephen Sprouse

#19. Did you know that Christmas means "Christ" (Jesus) and "mas" (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth!

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#20. Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#21. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.

Nigel Hamilton

#22. Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#23. You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#24. If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#25. Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#26. Today, no one questions-whether women are equal to men in ability and itelligence.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#27. I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#28. The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

#29. Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

Christopher Buckley

#30. When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#31. It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower