Richard M. Nixon Quotes

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

I was born in the house my father built.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.