Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

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

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.

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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

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

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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

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

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.

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

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Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

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