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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.
By Richard Milhous 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.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
By Richard Milhous Nixon