A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. 
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. 
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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. 
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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I am not a crook.
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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. 
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. 
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. 
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. 
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People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. 
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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Solutions are not the answer.
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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The press is the enemy.
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Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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Voters quickly forget what a man says.
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When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
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Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
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The second point is that coming out--coming back and saying that black Americans aren't as good as black Africans--most of them , basically, are just out of the trees.  Now, let's face it, they are.
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Government enterprise is the most inefficient and costly way of producing jobs.
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In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs...But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
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This is a great day for France!
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I don't want to see this country to go that way.  You know what happened to the Greeks.  Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates.
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They're not like us. They smell different, they look different, they act different.  The trouble is, you can't find one that's honest.
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You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.
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Do you know what happened to the Romans?  The last six Roman emperors were fags. . . .  You know what happened to the popes?  It's all right that popes were laying the nuns.
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You have to face the fact that whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to divise a system that reconizes this while not appearing to...
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Your boys will be home for Christmas.