Ehrlichman Nixon Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them. — Martina Boone

What Promise of a new day does one have to ignore to laugh so early in the morning? — Leot Felton

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. Influence is an invitation anyone can make to another person. — John C. Maxwell

It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction. — Debasish Mridha

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him. — Laozi

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. — Anthony Burgess

In the general election, Nixon refined Goldwater's southern strategy. Unlike Goldwater, who "ran as a racist candidate," Nixon said, the 1968 GOP nominee campaigned on racial themes without explicitly mentioning race. "Law and order" replaced "states' rights." Pledging to weaken the enforcement of civil rights laws replaced outright opposition to them. Nixon "always couched his views in such a way that a citizen could avoid admitting to himself that he was attracted by a racist appeal," said his top aide, John Ehrlichman. — Ari Berman

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings — Iwan Bloch

What we work out in our journals we don't take out on family and friends. — C.S. Lewis

Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal. — Kristin Hannah

Years later Nixon aide John Ehrlichman seemed to offer up a smoking gun when he told a reporter: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. — Chris Hayes

Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day. — Lucy Liu

I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them. — Rod Serling

Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it — John Ehrlichman

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough. — Julie Schumacher

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell. — Richard Ben-Veniste

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom — Amanda Craig

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go. — Debasish Mridha

We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! ... God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having
viz., life with Himself. — Oswald Chambers