Citations:it took Nixon to go to China


 * 2014, Megan McArdle, 10 Ways to Bounce Back in Business and Life, Head of Zeus ISBN 9781781859490
 * “It took Nixon to go to China,” says Breiner, “and it took a hardass former prosecutor to do HOPE. If he&#39;d been a public defender, people would say &#39;no, this  is just an extension of your mission as a PD.&#39;” When Alm started on the bench in  2002, ...
 * 2015, Neophytos Loizides, The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises, Stanford University Press ISBN 9780804794084, page 100
 * But we must admit that it took Nixon to go to China, and it took Sadat to go to Jerusalem. History will remember their courage and vision.” (Ibid.) This reframing  was not merely unfounded flattery, however. Although Papandreou played the ...
 * 2002, Steven Hill, Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics, Psychology Press ISBN 9780415931946, page 221
 * If it took Nixon to go to China, it took Clinton to sneak significant chunks of a conservative agenda past liberal guardians. But that wasn&#39;t enough for certain  Republicans. For the logic of Winner Take All dictates a singular ambition: that  you beat ...
 * 1988, New York Magazine, page 44
 * ... going to have to be done about Medicare,&quot; says one, &quot;but it will take a Democrat to do it, just like it took Nixon to go to China or Reagan to get the INF  treaty.&quot; This is a frequent, frustrated refrain. A Bush administration, unlike its  predecessor, ...
 * year unknown, Case Studies in US Trade Negotiation, Volume 2: Resolving Disputes, Peterson Institute ISBN 9780881325287, page 219
 * “After all, it took Nixon to go to China,” says Peder Maarbjerg, legislative director for Representative Peter Visclosky. “It took Clinton to reform welfare. Bush  already had all the business people on his side.”34 Rockefeller&#39;s aide Doneski  adds, ...
 * 1996, The Economist
 * But it took Mr Clinton to deliver enough Democratic votes for these measures, much as it took Nixon to go to China. The third, the budget battle of 1993, Mr  Clinton won by the thinnest possible mar- ?m against unified Republican  opposition.
 * 2003, Margaret Carlson, Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House, Simon and Schuster
 * Just as it took Nixon to go to China, it took a lawyer (she graduated from Harvard) and philosopher (she has a Ph.D.) to legitimize housework. Mendelson once  believed that only chumps did not order in, contract out or let it go as they  pursued ...
 * 1983, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress
 * “It takes the Democrats to address entitlements, as it took Nixon to go to China.” Summing up the past decade of party differences, Rep. Paul Simon of Illinois,  author of “The Once and Future Democrats,” concedes the need for change. “ There ...