I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.


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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