A biography for Richard M. Nixonhasn’t been written yet.
“I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.”
“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.”
“Voters quickly forget what a man says.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”
“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.”
“If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?”
“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.”
“The press is the enemy.”
“Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.”
“The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.”
“You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.”
“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.”
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
“The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.”
“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”
“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
“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.”