Citations:it took Nixon to go to China

English citations of it took Nixon to go to China

• 2014, Megan McArdle, 10 Ways to Bounce Back in Business and Life, Head of Zeus →ISBN

  “It took Nixon to go to China,” says Breiner, “and it took a hardass former prosecutor to do HOPE. If he'd been a public defender, people would say 'no, this is just an extension of your mission as a PD.'” 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, 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, 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'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," says one, "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." 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, 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'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 ...