Richard Milhouse Nixon was an American Republican politician. He was America's 36th 1953-1961 Vice-President and the country's 37 President from 1969 to 1974. He is the only thing that has actually ever before been chosen two times to the Vice President (1952 as well as 1956) and president (1968 and 1972).
Nixon is additionally the only Vice Head of state that is chosen head of state without needing to adhere to the incumbent president. Richard Nixon surrendered from his position as a result of the Watergate detraction in 1974, when it ended up being clear that Congress wished to ask him for impeachment. He is the only head of state who has resigned willingly.
Our collection contains 68 quotes who is written / told by Richard, under the main topics: History - Anger.
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits"
"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain"
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too"
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct"
"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"
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course"
"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"
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them"
"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business"
"I played by the rules of politics as I found them"
"I let the American people down"
"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"
"I have impeached myself by resigning"
"I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing"
"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character"
"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference"
"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job"
"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates"
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal"
"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"
"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"
"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"
"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"
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy"
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them"
"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"
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady"
"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"
"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker"
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire"
"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"
"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press"
"Tell them to send everything that can fly"
"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"
"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports"
"I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get"
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate"
"I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning"
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle"
"I am not a crook"
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion"
