Richard M. Nixon Quotes And Sayings

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History, You Can't Get Out.

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

I Let The American People Down.

If An Individual Wants To Be A Leader And Isn't Controversial, That Means He Never Stood For Anything.

I Can See Clearly Now... That I Was Wrong In Not Acting More Decisively And More Forthrightly In Dealing With Watergate.

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

A Man Is Not Finished When He Is Defeated. He Is Finished When He Quits.

In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

You Must Never Be Satisfied With Losing. You Must Get Angry, Terribly Angry, About Losing. But The Mark Of The Good Loser Is That He Takes His Anger Out On Himself And Not His Victorious Opponents Or On His Teammates.

My Concern Today Is Not With The Length Of A Person's Hair But With His Conduct.

If We Take The Route Of The Permanent Handout, The American Character Will Itself Be Impoverished.

My Strong Point, If I Have A Strong Point, Is Performance. I Always Do More Than I Say. I Always Produce More Than I Promise.

President Johnson And I Have A Lot In Common. We Were Both Born In Small Towns And We're Both Fortunate In The Fact That We Think We Married Above Ourselves.

There Are Some People, You Know, They Think The Way To Be A Big Man Is To Shout And Stomp And Raise Hell-and Then Nothing Ever Really Happens. I'm Not Like That I Never Shoot Blanks.

The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow Is That Of Peacemaker.

The Press Is The Enemy.

Only If You Have Been In The Deepest Valley, Can You Ever Know How Magnificent It Is To Be On The Highest Mountain.

Black Americans, No More Than White Americans, They Do Not Want More Government Programs Which Perpetuate Dependency. They Don't Want To Be A Colony In A Nation.

I Gave 'Em A Sword. And They Stuck It In, And They Twisted It With Relish. And I Guess If I Had Been In Their Position, I'd Have Done The Same Thing.

The Answer To Many Of The Domestic Problems We Face Is Not Higher Taxes And More Spending. It Is Less Waste, More Results And Greater Freedom For The Individual American To Earn A Rightful Place In His Own Community - And For States And Localities To Address Their Own Needs In Their Own Ways, In The Light Of Their Own Priorities.

Any Lady Who Is First Lady Likes Being First Lady. I Don't Care What They Say, They Like It.

I Don't Know Anything That Builds The Will To Win Better Than Competitive Sports.

I Don't Think That A Leader Can Control, To Any Great Extent, His Destiny. Very Seldom Can He Step In And Change The Situation If The Forces Of History Are Running In Another Direction.

Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.

Unless A President Can Protect The Privacy Of The Advice He Gets, He Cannot Get The Advice He Needs.

I Am Not A Crook.

The American People Are Entitled To See The President And To Hear His Views Directly, And Not To See Him Only Through The Press.

Our Chief Justices Have Probably Had More Profound And Lasting Influence On Their Times And On The Direction Of The Nation Than Most Presidents.

Tonight - To You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americans - I Ask For Your Support.

It I Talked About Watergate, I Was Described As Struggling To Free Myself From The Morass. If I Did Not Talk About Watergate, I Was Accused Of Being Out Of Touch With Reality.

Solutions Are Not The Answer.

By The Time You Get Dressed, Drive Out There, Play 18 Holes And Come Home, You've Blown Seven Hours. There Are Better Things You Can Do With Your Time.

Politics Would Be A Helluva Good Business If It Weren't For The Goddamned People.

The More You Stay In This Kind Of Job, The More You Realize That A Public Figure, A Major Public Figure, Is A Lonely Man.

A President Can Ask For Reconciliation In The Racial Conflict That Divides Americans. But Reconciliation Comes Only From The Hearts Of People.

At Home, We Must Reject The Mistaken Notion - A Notion That Has Dominated Too Much Of The Public Dialogue For Too Long - That Ever Bigger Government Is The Answer To Every Problem.

There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

People React To Fear, Not Love; They Don't Teach That In Sunday School, But It's True.

We Are Not Spending The Federal Government's Money, We Are Spending The Taxpayer's Money, And It Must Be Spent N A Way Which Guarantees His Money's Worth And Yields The Fullest Possible Benefit To The People Being Helped.

The Time Has Come For Us To Draw The Line. The Time Has Come For The Responsible Leaders Of Both Political Parties To Take A Stand Against Overgrown Government And For The American Taxpayer.

I Played By The Rules Of Politics As I Found Them.

My Own View Is That Taping Of Conversations For Historical Purposes Was A Bad Decision On The Part Of All The Presidents. I Don't Think Kennedy Should Have Done It. I Don't Think Johnson Should Have Done It, And I Don't Think We Should Have Done It.

I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.

The Presidency Has Many Problems, But Boredom Is The Least Of Them.

A Public Man Must Never Forget That He Loses His Usefulness When He As An Individual, Rather Than His Policy, Becomes The Issue.

I've Analyzed The Best I Can... And I Have Not Found An Impeachable Offense, And Therefore Resignation Is Not An Acceptable Course.

I Brought Myself Down. I Impeached Myself By Resigning.

I Believe In The Battle-whether It's The Battle Of A Campaign Or The Battle Of This Office, Which Is A Continuing Battle.

I Wish I Could Give You A Lot Of Advice, Based On My Experience Of Winning Political Debates. But I Don't Have That Experience. My Only Experience Is At Losing Them.