Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

In short, N is Richardian if, and only if, N is not Richardian.

I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

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

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

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.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)

Success is not a harbor; but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

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.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Business | Richard Branson

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.

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

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?;"Richard M. Nixon

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?

Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

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

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

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

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.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.