Nixon Quote
[President Nixon is making an impromptu nighttime visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where a group of student protestors has camped out]
Richard M. Nixon: Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
Young Student: You're ****tin' me.
Richard M. Nixon: Where you from?
Young Student: Syracuse.
Richard M. Nixon: The Orangemen! Now there's a football program. Jim Brown. And that other tailback... The one with the blood disease.
Young Student: Ernie Davis.
Richard M. Nixon: Right, right. I used to play a little ball myself at Whittier. [Nixon laughs nervously]
Richard M. Nixon: Of course, they used to use me as a tackling dummy.
Young Woman: We didn't come here to talk about football.
Richard M. Nixon: [chastened] Well, I understand that. Probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, I really do. I want peace, too, but peace with honor.
Young Woman: What does that mean?
Richard M. Nixon: Well, you can't have peace without a price. Sometimes you have to be willing to fight for peace. And sometimes to die.
Young Student: What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is that we are willing to die for what we believe in.
Richard M. Nixon: Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
Young Student: You're ****tin' me.
Richard M. Nixon: Where you from?
Young Student: Syracuse.
Richard M. Nixon: The Orangemen! Now there's a football program. Jim Brown. And that other tailback... The one with the blood disease.
Young Student: Ernie Davis.
Richard M. Nixon: Right, right. I used to play a little ball myself at Whittier. [Nixon laughs nervously]
Richard M. Nixon: Of course, they used to use me as a tackling dummy.
Young Woman: We didn't come here to talk about football.
Richard M. Nixon: [chastened] Well, I understand that. Probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, I really do. I want peace, too, but peace with honor.
Young Woman: What does that mean?
Richard M. Nixon: Well, you can't have peace without a price. Sometimes you have to be willing to fight for peace. And sometimes to die.
Young Student: What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is that we are willing to die for what we believe in.
Movie: Nixon
