Words matter. These are the best Richard M. Nixon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.
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.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.
I have impeached myself by resigning.
People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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.
Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
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.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
Solutions are not the answer.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
I am not a crook.
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.
