Quotes 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

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.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.