Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
“Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of decision. Faced with… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share
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