Famous quotes containing the words pat, nixon, wife, vice and/or president:
“Helen, Helen,
the kitchen is your dog
and you pat it
and love it
and keep it clean.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican—a little communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)