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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.


Richard Milhous Nixon

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RICHARD M. NIXON I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignati...
RICHARD M. NIXON I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someon...
RICHARD M. NIXON People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a micro...
RICHARD M. NIXON Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
RICHARD M. NIXON The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD M. NIXON By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours....
RICHARD M. NIXON The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re rea...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
RICHARD M. NIXON When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
RICHARD M. NIXON I want you to stonewall it.
RICHARD M. NIXON We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON What was Watergate? A little bugging! Richard M
RICHARD M. NIXON I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you'...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them—and th...
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD M. NIXON I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M. NIXON The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards
RICHARD M. NIXON If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anythin...
RICHARD M. NIXON You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
RICHARD M. NIXON I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong tea...
RICHARD M. NIXON My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that creat...
RICHARD M. NIXON I concede!
RICHARD M. NIXON What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
RICHARD M. NIXON The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD M. NIXON I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
RICHARD M. NIXON Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my preside...
RICHARD M. NIXON I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD M. NIXON A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON There was some really good food out there. There was a really good quail dish and ribs.
RICHARD M. NIXON We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extingu...
RICHARD M. NIXON There will be no whitewash in the White House.
RICHARD M. NIXON Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished whe...
RICHARD M. NIXON