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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.

No president stays in town. They all decamp. They all leave. They go back somewhere. But Obama is gonna stay there, and there's one reason why. He's not going to sit quietly by... Let's say there's a Republican elected president. He's not gonna sit quietly by and let whatever he thinks he's accomplished be unraveled. He's gonna be speaking up often about what he disagrees with, and he knows he's gonna have the media in his back pocket.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

No Republican has ever been elected president of the United States without winning Ohio.

No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive action in response to the voters'€™ demands. Obamacare has escalated costs, disrupted coverage, and introduced bad incentives throughout our healthcare system. Congress must repeal Obamacare and send the president a replacement package of reforms that protects freedom and focuses on the real problem with American healthcare -€” affordability.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W.] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.