Famous lines from Nixon (1996)

The lines

20 of 22 lines. Famous lines like these turn up in the daily game.

• Not a chance.Richard Nixon

• What does that mean?Student #2

• Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64.Cuban Man

• Come on, Mr. Nixon. It's a civil war between Vietnamese.Student #1

• No, we don't! You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?Young Student

• Yeah? Tell that to the GI's who are gonna die tomorrow in Vietnam.Student #2

• Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64. Not with all the money in the world.Richard Nixon

• There's.. there's more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.Richard Nixon

• Then what's the point? What's the point of being President? You're powerless!Young Student

• What you have to understand, Mr. Nixon, is we're willing to die for what we believe in.Student #1

• It's OK, Bob, we're just rapping, my friends and I. In fact we agree on a lot of things, don't we?Richard Nixon

• You don't want the war, we don't want the war, the Vietnamese don't want the war, so why does it go on?Young Student

• I hate these cocktail parties. John, I'm in hell. I'll be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four.Richard Nixon

• Well, you can't have peace without a price. Sometimes you have to be willing to fight for peace, and sometimes to die.Richard Nixon

• You can't stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it's not you, it's the system. The system won't let you stop it.Young Student

• Make some money, Dick. Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd. Let Goldwater and Rockefeller take the fall against Kennedy.John Mitchell

• I don't know why. I miss making love to the people. I miss entering a room. I miss the pure acting of it, John. I gotta get back in the arena.Richard Nixon

• Well, probably most of you think I'm a real SOB. I know that. I understand how you feel, but you know, I want peace too. But peace with honor.Richard Nixon

• He had greatness within his grasp.

• He changed the world, but lost a nation.