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
leader assets unpredictability
Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.
successful people leader
The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
moving people leader
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
keys idealism effective-leadership
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
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I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
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I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
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The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
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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.
earned life public
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of pub
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I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White House was behind us now.
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Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another #NAME?voices.
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This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.