Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. "
Richard M. Nixon
Stop
You
Game
Related Quotes:
" 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
Respect
Nature
Change
" Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. "
Richard M. Nixon
White
America
Black
" Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. "
Richard M. Nixon
They Say
Say
Like
" I have impeached myself by resigning. "
Richard M. Nixon
Myself
Impeached
Resigning
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Man
Know
You
" 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
Yourself
You
Win
" It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. "
Richard M. Nixon
Talk
Touch
Reality
" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "
Richard M. Nixon
Second
Politics
Finishing
" People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. "
Richard M. Nixon
President
Everything
Know
" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "
Richard M. Nixon
I Can
Acting
See
" The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. "
Richard M. Nixon
Always
Words
True
" Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. "
Richard M. Nixon
Mountain
Know
Deepest
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Because
Newspaper
Bad
" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "
Richard M. Nixon
Support
Your
Ask
" 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
President
Born
Fact
" I let the American people down. "
Richard M. Nixon
American
Down
History
" Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. "
Richard M. Nixon
Privacy
Protect
Advice
" 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
Direction
Influence
Most
" By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. "
Richard M. Nixon
Time
You
Home
" 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
Things
Going
Retire
" If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. "
Richard M. Nixon
Individual
Leader
Never
" 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
Deep
Excellence
Strong
" 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
Live
Truth
Tell
" We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. "
Richard M. Nixon
Mathematics
Learn
Sympathy
" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "
Richard M. Nixon
Music
You
Black
" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. "
Richard M. Nixon
American
Vietnam War
Now
" A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. "
Richard M. Nixon
Defeated
Finished
He
" Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. "
Richard M. Nixon
May
Yourself
You
" There will be no whitewash in the White House. "
Richard M. Nixon
White
White House
Will
" 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. "
Richard M. Nixon
Moon
Try
Time