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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
By Richard M. Nixon
People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far.
By Richard M. Nixon
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
By Richard M. Nixon
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
By Richard M. Nixon
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
By Richard M. Nixon
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.
By Richard M. Nixon
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.
By Richard M. Nixon
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
By Richard M. Nixon
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
By Richard M. Nixon
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.
By Richard M. Nixon
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
By 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.
By Richard M. Nixon
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.
By Richard M. Nixon
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
By Richard M. Nixon
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
By Richard M. Nixon
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
By Richard M. Nixon
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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Richard M. Nixon
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
By Richard M. Nixon
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 Richard M. Nixon
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
By Richard M. Nixon
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
By Richard M. Nixon
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
By Richard M. Nixon
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
By Richard M. Nixon