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Richard M. Nixon Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american president Richard M. Nixon on topics like president, people, politics

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

    — Richard M. Nixon on character
    114
  • Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

    A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

    — Richard M. Nixon on defeat
    25
  • Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger.

    You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

    — Richard M. Nixon on anger
    11
  • We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

    — Richard M. Nixon on learn
    5
  • Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

    — Richard M. Nixon on destroy
    4
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  • Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

    — Richard M. Nixon on chief
    3
  • A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

    — Richard M. Nixon on defeated
    3
  • Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

    — Richard M. Nixon on bathroom
    2
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on assigned
    1
  • If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

    — Richard M. Nixon on controversial
    1
  • Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

    — Richard M. Nixon on grieve
    1
  • In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

    — Richard M. Nixon on history
    1
  • About Richard M. Nixon

    Name Richard M. Nixon
    Quotes 97 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession President
    Birthday October 16
    About 37th President of the United States.
    Top topics president, people, politics, watergate, change
  • People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

    — Richard M. Nixon on fear
    1
  • Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

    — Richard M. Nixon on real
    1
  • I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

    — Richard M. Nixon on cool
    1
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on advice
    1
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  • Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

    — Richard M. Nixon on black
    0
  • Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

    — Richard M. Nixon on politics
    0
  • Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

    — Richard M. Nixon on bureaucrats
    0
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on sword
    0
  • I am not a crook.

    — Richard M. Nixon on crook
    0
  • Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

    — Richard M. Nixon on history
    0
  • Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

    — Richard M. Nixon on business
    0
  • I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

    — Richard M. Nixon on battle
    0
  • My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance.

    I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

    — Richard M. Nixon on performance
    0
  • You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

    — Richard M. Nixon on anymore
    0
  • Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

    — Richard M. Nixon on begin
    0
  • No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War.

    It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

    — Richard M. Nixon on american
    0
  • Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

    — Richard M. Nixon on opportunity
    0
  • I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

    — Richard M. Nixon on acceptable
    0
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on black
    0
  • Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

    — Richard M. Nixon on advice
    0
  • The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

    — Richard M. Nixon on burning
    0
  • Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

    — Richard M. Nixon on care
    0
  • Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

    — Richard M. Nixon on dignity
    0
  • The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

    — Richard M. Nixon on american
    0
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on job
    0
  • President Johnson and I have a lot in common.

    We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

    — Richard M. Nixon on born
    0
  • What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

    — Richard M. Nixon on anger
    0
  • At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

    — Richard M. Nixon on home
    0
  • Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden.

    The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

    — Richard M. Nixon on admire
    0
  • In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

    — Richard M. Nixon on age
    0
  • When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

    — Richard M. Nixon on things
    0
  • I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

    — Richard M. Nixon on glad
    0
  • Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

    — Richard M. Nixon on destroy
    0
  • Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

    — Richard M. Nixon on fellow
    0
  • The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

    — Richard M. Nixon on fire
    0
  • Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

    — Richard M. Nixon on bottom
    0
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on bad
    0
  • 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.

    — Richard M. Nixon on anger
    0
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