Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

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.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

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

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

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

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

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

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

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

Solutions are not the answer.

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.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.