A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant. 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
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. 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
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. Richard M. Nixon
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. Richard M. Nixon
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever. 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
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. Richard M. Nixon
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. Richard M. Nixon
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
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
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. Richard M. Nixon
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work. Richard M. Nixon
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth. Richard M. Nixon
Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. Richard M. Nixon
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... Richard M. Nixon
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. Richard M. Nixon
I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park. 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
I had come so far from the little house in Yorba Linda to this great house in Washington. Richard M. Nixon
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. Richard M. Nixon
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Richard M. Nixon
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. Richard M. Nixon
I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation. Richard M. Nixon
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
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale. 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
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
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
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Richard M. Nixon
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. Richard M. Nixon
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Richard M. Nixon
If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem. Richard M. Nixon
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? Richard M. Nixon
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon
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
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
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
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. Richard M. Nixon
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here. Richard M. Nixon
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
It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope. Richard M. Nixon
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. Richard M. Nixon
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
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. Richard M. Nixon
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
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
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. Richard M. Nixon
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. Richard M. Nixon
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination. Richard M. Nixon
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
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
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard M. Nixon
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. Richard M. Nixon
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. Richard M. Nixon
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
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
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
People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far. Richard M. Nixon
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead." Richard M. Nixon
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like. Richard M. Nixon
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. Richard M. Nixon
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
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Richard M. Nixon
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. Richard M. Nixon
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. Richard M. Nixon
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service. Richard M. Nixon
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
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. Richard M. Nixon
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Richard M. Nixon
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. Richard M. Nixon
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
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. Richard M. Nixon
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Richard M. Nixon
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues "nonnegotiable demands" may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his "victory" the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. Richard M. Nixon
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. Richard M. Nixon
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
They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before. Richard M. Nixon
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me. Richard M. Nixon
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Richard M. Nixon
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. Richard M. Nixon
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
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. Richard M. Nixon
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. Richard M. Nixon
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. Richard M. Nixon
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
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Richard M. Nixon
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. Richard M. Nixon
What does that candyass think I sent him over there for? 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
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. 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
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. Richard M. Nixon
When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart. Richard M. Nixon
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
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. Richard M. Nixon
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue. Richard M. Nixon
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. Richard M. Nixon
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. Richard M. Nixon
Type: President Date of Birth:
0000-00-00 Year of Death:
1994 Nationality:
American
