Quotes By Richard M. Nixon

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I am not a crook.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

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 wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

The press is the enemy.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

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

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

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.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

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.

I let the American people down.

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

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