Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. Richard M. Nixon More Quotes by Richard M. Nixon More Quotes From Richard M. Nixon 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. Richard M. Nixon magazines cases cartoon I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. Richard M. Nixon what-matters italian children 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. Richard M. Nixon groups rap careers I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer. Richard M. Nixon presidential jobs sports The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship. Richard M. Nixon environmental ocean water We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is. Richard M. Nixon strong air country My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) Richard M. Nixon reading peace art We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek. Richard M. Nixon dedication goal perfection Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. Richard M. Nixon johnson doubt rose Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one. Richard M. Nixon debate loses let-me 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. Richard M. Nixon change success time Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have. Richard M. Nixon unpredictability assets leader As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever. Richard M. Nixon presses concerned enemy No failure is final unless you ratify it. Richard M. Nixon no-failure finals With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States. Richard M. Nixon united-states differences fifty [Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong. Richard M. Nixon government war two Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service Richard M. Nixon want mistake years I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say. Richard M. Nixon i-can The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises. Richard M. Nixon balance powerful war I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. Richard M. Nixon ping-pong fruition team
