Richard M. Nixon

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

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.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

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.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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