You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job. – Richard M. Nixon
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. – Richard M. Nixon
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon
I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. – Richard M. Nixon
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. – Richard M. Nixon
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. – Richard M. Nixon
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. – Richard M. Nixon
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. – Richard M. Nixon
Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. – Richard M. Nixon
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. – Richard M. Nixon
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. – Richard M. Nixon
We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped. – Richard M. Nixon
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. – Richard M. Nixon
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything. – Richard M. Nixon
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. – Richard M. Nixon
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. – Richard M. Nixon
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. – Richard M. Nixon
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. – Richard M. Nixon
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. – Richard M. Nixon
You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. – Richard M. Nixon
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon