Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

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.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

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

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

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.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

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.