Richard M. Nixon Quotes (141 Quotes)

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I am not a crook.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.

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.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when youre really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.

Solutions are not the answer.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

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

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of America's most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I would have made a good Pope.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The public lands represent in a sense,the breathing space of the nation.

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.

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.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Don't try to take on a new personality it doesn't work.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territory, not for glory, but that their younger brothers and their sons and your sons can have a chance to grow up in a world of peace and freedom and justic

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

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.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.