Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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Richard M. Nixon

Profession : President

Birth : January 9, 1913

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

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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.

Richard M. Nixon

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

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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.

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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.

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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

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I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

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Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

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Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

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I have impeached myself by resigning.

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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.

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