Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixonwas the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth9 January 1913
CountryUnited States of America
lying believe jail
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
language prose processors
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
healing patriotic action
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
years justice cents
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,
patriotic honor peacemaker
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
freedom winning way
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.
funny dumb great-day
This is a great day for France!
war white house
There can be no whitewash at the White House.
pain regret war
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.
fighting land ideas
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.
believe power years
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.
war planning spontaneous
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
politics down-and come-up
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
war president vietnam
I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.