Richard M. Nixon
President
1913-01-09
Quotes by Richard M. Nixon
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To write a novel, you need an iron butt.
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To write a novel, you need an iron butt.
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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.
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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
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Solutions are not the answer.
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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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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
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I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
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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.
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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.
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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
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Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
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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.
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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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