- Change theme
Quotes by Richard M Nixon
- I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
- I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
- I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
- 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.
- I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
- If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
- In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
- It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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