Richard m. nixon quotes

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

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

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

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.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

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

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

Where the hell is Chad?

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

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.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

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'm not a lovable man.

Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

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

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

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

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

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.

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.

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

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

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

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

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

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

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

I would have made a good pope.

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.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

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

The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Solutions are not the answer.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

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 disappointments, 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.

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

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.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

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.

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

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

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

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

The press is the enemy.

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 jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

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

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

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.

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

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

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

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

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

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.

Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

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

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Well, I'm not a crook.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

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.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

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.

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.