Richard Nixon Quotes

• American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television.

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• When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal… But I brought myself down. I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and twisted it with relish. And I guess that if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

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• In giving you these tapes, blemishes and all, I am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people.

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• I don’t give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall…plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up, or anything else. If that will save it, save the plan.

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• This is not an invasion of Vietnam.

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• I don’t believe that I ought to quit because I am not a quitter.

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Rains, Pray, Sunshine

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

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  Tags in Music, Want, Play, Beautiful

• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth – to see it like it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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• Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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  Tags in Remember, Destroy, Hate

• 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.

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  Tags in Read, Cartoon

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

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  Tags in Character, Learn, Defeat

• I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

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  Tags in Leader, Change, Great, Think, Destiny

• 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.

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  Tags in Produce, Passion, Freedom, American

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

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  Tags in Majority, Great, American

• 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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• I am not a crook.

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

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  Tags in Government, Dishonest, Men

• 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.

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Richard Nixon (95)

Birth:	9th November, 1913
Death:	22nd April, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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