Richard M. Nixon Quotes

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

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.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

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

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

This is a great day for France!

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

The color of communism was not red but gray.

The average American is just like the child in the family.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

Bring us together again.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country