Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

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

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

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I am not a crook.

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

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some isappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain

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

Solutions are not the answer.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table and deny the aggressor theirs.

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.

If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation… acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

The Chinese are a great and vital people who should not remain isolated from the international community…. It is certainly in our interest, and in the interest of peace and stability in Asia and the world, that we take what steps we can toward improved practical relations with Peking.

I brought myself down. I gave them 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.

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

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

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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