The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.
Writing is the toughest thing I’ve ever done.
To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can’t trust the government, you can’t believe what they say, and you can’t rely on their judgment.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
I’m not a lovable man.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
I’ll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.
You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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.
The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Failure isn’t falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.
Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.