Richard M. Nixon Politics Quotations

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.