Nixon: "I’m not saying that blacks cannot govern; I am saying they have a hell of a time. Now, that must demonstrate something."
Nixon: "What I’m getting back, the long way around, is this: I think something that is eventually going to come out here is this, and it’s right beneath the surface, this whole black-white deal, is going to come out is the fact that Asians are capable of governing themselves, one way or another. We Caucasians have learned it after slaughtering each other in religious wars and other wars, including in the last century. [...] The Latins do it in a miserable way, but they do it. But the Africans just can’t run things."
Nixon: "I’m not saying that blacks cannot govern; I am saying they have a hell of a time. Now, that must demonstrate something."
Nixon: "What I’m getting back, the long way around, is this: I think something that is eventually going to come out here is this, and it’s right beneath the surface, this whole black-white deal, is going to come out is the fact that Asians are capable of governing themselves, one way or another. We Caucasians have learned it after slaughtering each other in religious wars and other wars, including in the last century. [...] The Latins do it in a miserable way, but they do it. But the Africans just can’t run things."