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Richard Milhous Nixon

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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. STANTON EVANS I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.
ANDREW MCPHERSON What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.
BRUCE VILANCH I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his op...
ROGER AILES It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word
WILLIAM ZINSSER During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
JEANE DIXON Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Ju...
P. J. O'ROURKE Like [former President Richard] Nixon says on one of his tapes, if the president does it, it is lega...
BOB WOODWARD The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
CHARLES COLSON Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War)
PAUL HARVEY The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergat...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Li...
DREW CAREY I think this was a man perceived as being the grandfatherly figure who wound up becoming Richard Nix...
BRIAN WICE I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the p...
TONY CAMPOLO It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it ...
WAVY GRAVY I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying ...
BOB WOODWARD Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry
WILFRED SHEED The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Avoid all needle drugs — the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
GERALD R. FORD I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn'...
DON JOHNSON I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with ...
ROBERT DALLEK We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON

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RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
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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 Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we h...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON To make it possible for our children, and for our childrens children, to live in a world of peace. T...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in ...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I concede!
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a ...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly eno...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD MILHOUS 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 som...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
To find that answer, we need only loo...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished w...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in de...
RICHARD MILHOUS 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 MILHOUS NIXON You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. Yo...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignat...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give the...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of wha...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that cr...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The sky is no longer the limit.
RICHARD MILHOUS 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 MILHOUS NIXON Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD MILHOUS 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 MILHOUS 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 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 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