Richard Nixon — "I have found that the American people are a very forgiving people."

"The Negro is just not ready to govern himself."

"It is because I believe so deeply in the American system, because I believe so strongly in the American people, that I have decided to take the action which I shall now announce."

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America—the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground where …"

"I'm not going to be one of those who is going to sit around and cry about the mistakes of the past. What we've got to do is get on with the business of the future."

"You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."