Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I'm not a lovable man.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

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

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

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

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

I was born in the house my father built.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.