“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
Change
“I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.”
BestAll Quotes by 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.”
Truth“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
History“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”
Age“I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.”
Best“Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.”
Government“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
Cool“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.”
Anger“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.”
History“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
Sympathy“By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.”
Home“Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Best“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.”
Experience“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
History“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
Change“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
Politics“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”
Change“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”
Government“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.”
War“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
Politics