Top 99 Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

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.

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