Quotes By Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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.

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.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

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

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.

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

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

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.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.