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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
— Richard M. Nixon
Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
— Richard M. Nixon
Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.
— Richard M. Nixon
I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.
— Richard M. Nixon
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
— Richard M. Nixon
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
— Bruce Cockburn
If some of my judgments were wrong
and some were wrong
they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation, — Richard M. Nixon
and some were wrong
they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation, — Richard M. Nixon
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
— 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
To write a novel, you need an iron butt.
— Richard M. Nixon
Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
— Richard M. Nixon
The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.
— Richard M. Nixon
The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
— Richard M. Nixon
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
— Richard M. Nixon
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
— Richard M. Nixon
The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."
— Richard M. Nixon
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
— Richard M. Nixon
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
— John F. Kennedy
The Italians ... you can't find one who is honest.
— Richard M. Nixon
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
— Richard M. Nixon
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
— 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 in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
— Richard M. Nixon
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.
— Richard M. Nixon
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
— Richard M. Nixon
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
— Richard M. Nixon
During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.
— Richard M. Nixon
You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
— Richard M. Nixon
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
— Richard M. Nixon
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
— Richard M. Nixon
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
— Richard M. Nixon
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
— Richard M. Nixon
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
— Richard M. Nixon
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
— Richard M. Nixon
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
— 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
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
— Richard M. Nixon
I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
— Richard M. Nixon
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
— Richard M. Nixon
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
— Richard M. Nixon
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
— Richard M. Nixon
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
— Richard M. Nixon
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
— Richard M. Nixon
When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.
— Richard M. Nixon
History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won't, because most historians are on the left.
— Richard M. Nixon
People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.
— Richard M. Nixon
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
— Richard M. Nixon
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
— Richard M. Nixon
A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits
— Richard M. Nixon
I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
— 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
Publicly, we say one thing ... Actually, we do another.
— Richard M. Nixon
I have impeached myself by resigning.
— Richard M. Nixon
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
— Richard M. Nixon
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.
— Richard M. Nixon
The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.
— Richard M. Nixon
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
— Richard M. Nixon
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
— Richard M. Nixon
What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
— Richard M. Nixon
The color of communism was not red but gray.
— Richard M. Nixon
Bring us together again.
— Richard M. Nixon
Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.
— Richard M. Nixon
Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.
— Richard M. Nixon
Solutions are not the answer.
— Richard M. Nixon
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
— Richard M. Nixon
The sky is no longer the limit.
— Richard M. Nixon
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
— Richard M. Nixon
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
— Richard M. Nixon
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
— Richard M. Nixon
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
— Richard M. Nixon
Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.
— Richard M. Nixon
Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
— Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.
— Richard M. Nixon
What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
— Richard M. Nixon
There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,
— Richard M. Nixon
Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.
— Richard M. Nixon
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
— Richard M. Nixon
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
— Richard M. Nixon
No failure is final unless you ratify it.
— Richard M. Nixon
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.
— Richard M. Nixon
Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
— Richard M. Nixon
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.
— Richard M. Nixon
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.
— Richard M. Nixon
The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.
— Richard M. Nixon
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
— Richard M. Nixon
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
— Richard M. Nixon
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.
— Richard M. Nixon
I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.
— Richard M. Nixon
Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?
— Richard M. Nixon
They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.
— Richard M. Nixon
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.
— Richard M. Nixon
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
— Richard M. Nixon
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
— Richard M. Nixon
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
— Richard M. Nixon
What was Watergate? A little bugging!
— Richard M. Nixon