1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon – [Perseverance]
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 M. Nixon – [Causes]
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon – [Public Office]
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon – [Hatred]
Defeat doesn't finish a man — quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon – [Defeat]
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon – [Elections]
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 M. Nixon – [Government]
I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon – [Politicians and Politics]
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 – [Leaders and Leadership]
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 M. Nixon – [Music]
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon – [Politicians and Politics]
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
Richard M. Nixon – [Medicine]
If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon – [America]
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon – [Prejudice]
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon – [Self-image]
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon – [Conflict]
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 M. Nixon – [Difficulties]
Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
Richard M. Nixon – [Politicians and Politics]
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 M. Nixon – [Survival]
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 M. Nixon – [Vocation]