We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enou...
RICHARD M. NIXON Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpe...
RICHARD M. NIXON Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates bla...
RICHARD M. NIXON If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects...
RICHARD M. NIXON The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerou...
RICHARD M. NIXON There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise ...
RICHARD M. NIXON A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD M. NIXON Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD M. NIXON There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You...
RICHARD M. NIXON Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
RICHARD M. NIXON You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
RICHARD M. NIXON If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
RICHARD M. NIXON Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
RICHARD M. NIXON I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD M. NIXON If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts li...
RICHARD M. NIXON I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD M. NIXON Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others m...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government...
RICHARD M. NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD M. NIXON He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
RICHARD M. NIXON It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it i...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent....
RICHARD M. NIXON Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's f...
RICHARD M. NIXON Voters quickly forget what a man says.
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinc...
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 ...
RICHARD M. NIXON You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conferenc...
RICHARD M. NIXON We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
RICHARD M. NIXON If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for any...
RICHARD M. NIXON Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD M. NIXON Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
RICHARD M. NIXON Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD M. NIXON Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my pre...
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
RICHARD M. NIXON In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the m...
RICHARD M. NIXON When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
RICHARD M. NIXON The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
RICHARD M. NIXON Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qua...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that...
RICHARD M. NIXON Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
RICHARD M. NIXON Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises h...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven ho...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD M. NIXON I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're real...
RICHARD M. NIXON In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyho...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don'...
RICHARD M. NIXON The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both pol...
RICHARD M. NIXON The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see...
RICHARD M. NIXON No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resig...
RICHARD M. NIXON I am not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earn...
RICHARD M. NIXON We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by ...
RICHARD M. NIXON A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconcilia...
RICHARD M. NIXON I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I...
RICHARD M. NIXON This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for...
RICHARD M. NIXON Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
RICHARD M. NIXON Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
RICHARD M. NIXON Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There a...
RICHARD M. NIXON I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he st...
RICHARD M. NIXON I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Ita...
RICHARD M. NIXON Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
RICHARD M. NIXON A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD M. NIXON I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
RICHARD M. NIXON It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of ...
RICHARD M. NIXON As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American peo...
RICHARD M. NIXON Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the d...
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 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 For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways / to the voices of quiet ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I t...
RICHARD M. NIXON As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to...the American p...
RICHARD M. NIXON This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
RICHARD M. NIXON One thing, Ron, old boy. We won't have to have any more press conferences, and we won't even have to...
RICHARD M. NIXON For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one....
RICHARD M. NIXON I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is...
RICHARD M. NIXON If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ...
RICHARD M. NIXON In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I do fo...
RICHARD M. NIXON The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
RICHARD M. NIXON [The public lands represent] in a sense,the breathing space of the nation.
RICHARD M. NIXON Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished w...
RICHARD M. NIXON People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned e...
RICHARD M. NIXON The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so...
RICHARD M. NIXON President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortun...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
RICHARD M. NIXON Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm some...
RICHARD M. NIXON I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that wer...
RICHARD M. NIXON I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territor...
RICHARD M. NIXON I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate ...
RICHARD M. NIXON We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another #NAME?voices.
RICHARD M. NIXON This is my first cook-off. Actually, the people at the track have been really good to me ... I reall...
RICHARD M. NIXON You have to enjoy pleasing other people. I really do enjoy pleasing other people.
RICHARD M. NIXON What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger ...
RICHARD M. NIXON We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them...
RICHARD M. NIXON When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
RICHARD M. NIXON The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
RICHARD M. NIXON Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woma...
RICHARD M. NIXON The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpe...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he resp...
RICHARD M. NIXON The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re re...
RICHARD M. NIXON The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; th...
RICHARD M. NIXON Solutions are not the answer.
RICHARD M. NIXON Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON The sky is no longer the limit.
RICHARD M. NIXON When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he...
RICHARD M. NIXON When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are t...
RICHARD M. NIXON You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
RICHARD M. NIXON I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Monda...
RICHARD M. NIXON The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes with healing...
RICHARD M. NIXON So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice becau...
RICHARD M. NIXON Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pr...
RICHARD M. NIXON Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for pri...
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 ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. ...
RICHARD M. NIXON I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dea...
RICHARD M. NIXON My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part o...
RICHARD M. NIXON The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Govern...
RICHARD M. NIXON People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
RICHARD M. NIXON If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
RICHARD M. NIXON Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate p...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then...
RICHARD NIXON Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
RICHARD NIXON You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
RICHARD NIXON All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revol...
RICHARD NIXON We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent....
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in Novem...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts lik...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolut...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burd...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can pro...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he i...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for m...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON