Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes & Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings

'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.' Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotations A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard Milhouse Nixon Remarks Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. Richard Milhouse Nixon Remarks As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War) Richard Milhouse Nixon Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me." (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor) Richard Milhouse Nixon Remarks I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. Richard Milhouse Nixon I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. Richard Milhouse Nixon I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team." (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China) Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages I let the American people down. Richard Milhouse Nixon I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building) Richard Milhouse Nixon I want you to stonewall it." (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate) Richard Milhouse Nixon I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake." [to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War] Richard Milhouse Nixon If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotations If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished." (Proposal to reform welfare programs) Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews. Richard Milhouse Nixon My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct." (On campus radicals) Richard Milhouse Nixon My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings My view is that one should not break up a winning combination. Richard Milhouse Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard Milhouse Nixon Once you're in the stream of history you can't get out. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. Richard Milhouse Nixon 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on The Edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. Richard Milhouse Nixon The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service. Richard Milhouse Nixon The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. Richard Milhouse Nixon The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. Richard Milhouse Nixon 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady. Richard Milhouse Nixon Remarks The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. Richard Milhouse Nixon There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell." (On Congressional moves toward impeachment) Richard Milhouse Nixon There will be no whitewash in the White House." (On Watergate investigation) Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation." (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11) Richard Milhouse Nixon Sayings This [is] a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me. Richard Milhouse Nixon Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support." (On his Vietnam War policy) Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. Richard Milhouse Nixon Remarks Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline. Richard Milhouse Nixon Popular Quotes 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. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. Richard Milhouse Nixon When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. Richard Milhouse Nixon Who are you going to shoot?" [joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court] Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue." (On student protesters against Vietnam War) Richard Milhouse Nixon You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn." [to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam] Richard Milhouse Nixon Adages Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes [The antiwar movement is] a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. Richard Milhouse Nixon