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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

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. — Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. — Rick Perlstein

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

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole. — 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

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

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

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon. — Gerald R. Ford

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon. — Barry Goldwater

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

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

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner. — Jeane Dixon

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine. — 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

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. — Richard M. Nixon

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV. — Richard Corliss

Some of the peoples of Africa have been out of trees for only about 50 years. — Richard M. Nixon

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. — Richard M. Nixon

Though others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ~ President Richard Nixon — Chester Goad

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. — John Podhoretz

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

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. — Richard M. Nixon

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. — Rush Limbaugh

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles. — Frank Luntz

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies. — Richard M. Nixon

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. — Richard M. Nixon

History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won't, because most historians are on the left. — Richard M. Nixon

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. — Tony Campolo

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. — Richard M. Nixon

(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you. — Christopher Hitchens

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. — Richard M. Nixon

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. — David Cameron

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes. — 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

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

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was. — Roger Ailes

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

Bring us together again. — Richard M. Nixon

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth. — Richard M. Nixon

Solutions are not the answer. — 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

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed, — Molly Ivins

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American. — Richard M. Nixon

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. — Wavy Gravy

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? — Joseph Heller

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

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. — 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

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

They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before. — Richard M. Nixon

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. — Susan Estrich

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

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might. — Richard M. Nixon

What was Watergate? A little bugging! — Richard M. Nixon

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. — Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice. — Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. — David Pietrusza

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

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia. — Ralph Nader