Richard M. Nixon Quotes

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

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.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

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

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

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

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

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

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.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Where the hell is Chad?

The press is the enemy.

Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.