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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Richard Nixon

Perseverance
2

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard Nixon

Causes
3

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard Nixon

Public office
4

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
5

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

Hatred
6

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

Richard Nixon

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7

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
8

Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Richard Nixon

Defeat
9

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard Nixon

Election
10

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Richard Nixon

Government
11

I am not a crook.

Richard Nixon

Politicians and Politics
12

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 Nixon

Leaders and Leadership
13

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

Richard Nixon

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14

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Richard Nixon

Music
15

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Richard Nixon

Politicians and Politics
16

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
17

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

Richard Nixon

Medicine
18

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
19

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

Richard Nixon

United States of America
20

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Richard Nixon

Prejudice
21

If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
22

In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
23

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard Nixon

Self image
24

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
25

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
26

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard Nixon

Conflict
27

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.

Richard Nixon

Difficulties
28

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.

Richard Nixon
29

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Richard Nixon

Politicians and Politics
30

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

Richard Nixon

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31

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard Nixon

Survival
32

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Richard Nixon

Vocation
33

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard Nixon

Failure
34

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Richard Nixon

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35

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard Nixon

Fear
36

Red China and Russia are having their differences. But we cannot take too much comfort in the fact that what they are debating about is not how to beat each other but how to beat us. They are simply arguing about what kind of a shovel they should use to dig the grave of the United States.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
37

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

Richard Nixon

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38

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

Richard Nixon

Crisis
39

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Richard Nixon

Adversity
40

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Richard Nixon

Peace
41

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard Nixon

Negotiation
42

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard Nixon

Public
43

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard Nixon

Politicians and Politics
44

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

Richard Nixon
45

The power of impeachment is, of course, solely entrusted by the Constitution to the House of Representatives. However, the Executive Branch is clearly obligated, both by precedent and by the necessity of the House of Representatives having all of the facts before reaching its decision, to supply relevant information to the Legislative Branch, as it does in aid of other inquiries being conducted by committees of the Congress, to the extent compatible with the public interest.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
46

The sky is no longer the limit.

Richard Nixon

Outer space
47

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

Richard Nixon

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48

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
49

This fellow Hunt...he knows too damn much.

Richard Nixon
50

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Richard Nixon

Moon
51

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

Hatred
52

To make it possible for our children, and for our childrens children, to live in a world of peace. To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunityof equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American. To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor. To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreamsnot in fear, but in hopeproud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world.

Richard Nixon

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53

We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.

Richard Nixon

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54

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.

Richard Nixon

Cooperation
55

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
56

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
57

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Richard Nixon

President
58

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Richard Nixon

Uncategorised
59

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Richard Nixon

Freedom
60

You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, I mean storming around about this issueI mean you name itget rid of the war; there will be another one. Out there weve got kids who are just doing their duty. I have seen them. They stand tall, and they are proud. I am sure they are scared. I was when I was there. But when it really comes down to it, they stand up and, boy, you have to talk up to those men. And they are going to do fine; weve got to stand back of them.

Richard Nixon

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

I am not a crook.

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 often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

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

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Red China and Russia are having their differences. But we cannot take too much comfort in the fact that what they are debating about is not how to beat each other but how to beat us. They are simply arguing about what kind of a shovel they should use to dig the grave of the United States.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

The sky is no longer the limit.

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

This fellow Hunt...he knows too damn much.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.

We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.

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.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.