Top 100 Richard M. Nixon Quotes
#1. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
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#2. The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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#3. I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
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#4. The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
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#5. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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#6. It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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#8. Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
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#9. Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,
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#12. To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.
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#13. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
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#14. But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
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#15. Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.
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#16. Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.
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#17. Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.
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#19. For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
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#20. We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.
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#21. The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
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#22. You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
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#25. What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
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#26. Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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#27. The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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#28. I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
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#30. 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.
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#31. Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.
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#32. Those that hate you don't win until they get you to hate them. Then you destroy yourself.
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#33. They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second.
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#34. For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
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#35. We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.
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#36. I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
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#37. 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.
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#38. We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.
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#39. If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.
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#40. We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.
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#41. A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
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#42. Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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#43. With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
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#44. My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
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#45. If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
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#46. 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.
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#47. If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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#48. 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.
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#49. Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth
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#50. Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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#52. What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
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#53. Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
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#54. In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs ... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
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#55. Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?
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#56. 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.
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#58. You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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#59. No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.
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#60. You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
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#61. I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.
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#64. Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.
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#65. As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.
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#66. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
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#67. The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
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#69. I want to be sure ... that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood? ... Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing? ... Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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.
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#72. I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
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#73. The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
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#76. We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
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#77. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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#78. There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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#80. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
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#81. I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
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#82. 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.
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#83. I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
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#84. The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
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#85. In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
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#86. 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.
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#88. Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.
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#89. I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
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#90. I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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#91. I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country
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#93. We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
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#95. Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
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#96. The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.
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#97. I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.
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#98. 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 ...
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#100. Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews ... The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
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