Quotes 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.

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.

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

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.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I let the American people down.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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.

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.

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 played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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

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

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.