Top 99 Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I let the American people down.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.