Richard M. Nixon People Quotations

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

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.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

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

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.

People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

This is my first cook-off. Actually, the people at the track have been really good to me ... I really just entered the cook-off to support the track.

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.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

I let the American people down.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.