Richard Nixon Quotes

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Public, Realize, Lonely

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Think, Born, Both, Married

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

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gentleman, Kick

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Reality

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, Personally, Separation, Manner

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Great, People, Remember

• A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finished, Man

• Voters quickly forget what a man says.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quickly, Forget, Man

• Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Anger, Respect

  Tags in Impression

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in America

  Tags in Opposed, Instinct

• Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Interest

• There will be no whitewash in the White House.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in House

• Tell them to send everything that can fly.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Fly, Tell

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Game, Until, Piece

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in History

  Tags in Top, Think, Bottom

• I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Better, Win, Build

• We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Learn, Philosophy

• 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 Nixon

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Process, Change, Laugh, Learn, Starts, Personal

• The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politician, Speech

• My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

Richard Nixon (95)

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

About

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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