Richard M. Nixon Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.”

“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”

“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”

“I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.”

“It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.”

“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”

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

“You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”

“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.”

“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”