Richard M. Nixon Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.”

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”

“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”

“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”

“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”

“A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.”

“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”

“Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.”

“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.”

“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”