Quotes from Richard M. Nixon

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

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.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

I gave 'em 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.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

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

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.