Richard Nixon Quotes

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

The press is the enemy.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

I would have made a good pope.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

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

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.