Quotes By Richard M. Nixon

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

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.

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.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Solutions are not the answer.

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.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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.

I let the American people down.

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

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

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

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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.

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

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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