Top 300 Richard M. Nixon Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”

— Richard M. Nixon

202. “I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they’re being taped.”

— Richard M. Nixon

203. “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.”

— Richard M. Nixon

204. “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.”

— Richard M. Nixon

205. “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”

— Richard M. Nixon

206. “We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.”

— Richard M. Nixon

207. “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

208. “With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.”

— Richard M. Nixon

209. “I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.”

— Richard M. Nixon

210. “Screw State! State’s always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!”

— Richard M. Nixon

211. “We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.”

— Richard M. Nixon

212. “I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”

— Richard M. Nixon

213. “It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?”

— Richard M. Nixon

214. “Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service.”

— Richard M. Nixon

215. “While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.”

— Richard M. Nixon

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

219. “My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.”

— Richard M. Nixon

220. “The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.”

— Richard M. Nixon

221. “As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.”

— Richard M. Nixon

222. “Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.”

— Richard M. Nixon

223. “What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.”

— Richard M. Nixon

224. “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

225. “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

226. “I really believe life is simple. It’s all the other people that make things complicated.”

— Richard M. Nixon

227. “I’ll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.”

— Richard M. Nixon

228. “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

229. “I have impeached myself by resigning.”

— Richard M. Nixon

230. “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

231. “I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.”

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Richard M. Nixon

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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.”

— Richard M. Nixon

236. “Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.”

— Richard M. Nixon

237. “Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.”

— Richard M. Nixon

238. “Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.”

— Richard M. Nixon

239. “If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.”

— Richard M. Nixon

240. “In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?”

— Richard M. Nixon

241. “Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.”

— Richard M. Nixon

242. “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

243. “Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed...”

— Richard M. Nixon

244. “By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.”

— Richard M. Nixon

245. “Once you get into this great stream of history you can’t get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream – if it is intended that you stay there.”

— Richard M. Nixon

246. “We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.”

— Richard M. Nixon

247. “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

248. “Writing is the toughest thing I’ve ever done.”

— Richard M. Nixon

249. “The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.”

— Richard M. Nixon

250. “Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.”

— Richard M. Nixon