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.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office… — 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
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the… — 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
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 would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the… — 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.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time,… — 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
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
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
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give… — 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
