| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 626 |
| AUTHOR: | Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–94) |
| QUOTATION: | Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President RICHARD M. NIXON, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger, March 8, 1971.—The New York Times, March 10, 1971, p. 14. |
| SUBJECTS: | Foreign policy |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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