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
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
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
It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention… — 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
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
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
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and… — 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
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
The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its… — 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
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
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. — 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
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
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
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. — 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 Image
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 Image
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, — 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 the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. — 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 have earned… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
