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
change chaos bureaucracy
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
jobs men thinking
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
war sleep fighting
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
character handouts permanent
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
presidential gentleman complaining
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
thinking history life-is
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.
profound justice president
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
men issues never-forget
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
history acting i-can
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
history winner beats
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
cake games way
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.
enemy journalism presses
The press is the enemy.
humorous thinking shopping
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
politics politician found
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.