Richard M. Nixon Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Tell them to send everything that can fly.”

“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”

“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.”

“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.”

“The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.”

“The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.”

“Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.”

“There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.”

“I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.”

“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.”