Richard M. Nixon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
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.
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.
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.
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.
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.
In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs ... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.
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.
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.
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.
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.