Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

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

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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.

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.

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

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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 great silent majority.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

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

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

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.