Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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.
Richard M. Nixon

War, Working, Fighting

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Richard M. Nixon

Words, Enough, Cannot

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

Love, Fear, School

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon

History, Winner, Somebody

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Richard M. Nixon

History, Wrong, Acting

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

History, War, American

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

Men, Government, Sure

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 M. Nixon

Change, Anger, Strong

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Try, Possible

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
Richard M. Nixon

Good, Real, Screwed

Solutions are not the answer.
Richard M. Nixon

Answer, Solutions

The press is the enemy.
Richard M. Nixon

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

United, Shopping, Stood

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 M. Nixon

Game, Find, Until

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

Nothing, Big, Happens

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. Nixon

Win, Suffer, Risks

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics, Good, Business

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. Nixon

History, Greatest, Honor

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics, Found, Rules

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon

Great, History, Once

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

Character, Learn, Defeat

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Truth, Live, Find

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Home, Play

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

Put, Union, Unless

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: January 9, 1913

Died: April 22, 1994

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