Richard M. Nixon Quotes

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

The great silent majority.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

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 change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

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

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

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

I let the American people down.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

Where the hell is Chad?

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 never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.