Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Richard M. Nixon

" My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? "

Richard M. Nixon

" Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. "

Richard M. Nixon

" I am not a crook. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Tell them to send everything that can fly. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "

Richard M. Nixon

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

Richard M. Nixon

" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. "

Richard M. Nixon

" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" 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

" Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Solutions are not the answer. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. "

Richard M. Nixon

Local Government

" 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