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If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Richard M. Nixon
Lying, Believe, Jail
Richard M. Nixon's remarks to John Dean (April 1973) as quoted in Nixon Tapes "Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives", 1974.

But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

Richard M. Nixon
Hands, Class, San Francisco
Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in Harper's Magazine, February 2000.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Richard M. Nixon
Enemy, Allies, Politician
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.716, Best Books on

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon
Mean, Leader, Want
"An interview with Nixon: 'Defeated, but not finished'". Interview with Nick Thimmesch, Chicago Tribune, December 11, 1978.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Clean, He Man

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Richard M. Nixon
Baseball, Taken, Two

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

Richard M. Nixon
Littles, Watergate

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard M. Nixon
Travel, Home, Government

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Strength, Hurt, Strong

Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

Richard M. Nixon
Trust, Manipulate, Live By

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!

Richard M. Nixon
Government, Liberty, Ufo

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

Richard M. Nixon
Country, Character, Power

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Yield, Government, People
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.76, Best Books on

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Richard M. Nixon
Moon, Trying, Clients

I'm not a lovable man.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Lovable

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

Richard M. Nixon
Peace, War, America
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

Richard M. Nixon
Smart, Stupid, Fall

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Richard M. Nixon
Genius, Mediocrity, Politics
Remarks at a Promotion Ceremony for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, December 3, 1973.

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

Richard M. Nixon
Air, Water, Environmental
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970".

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Richard M. Nixon
True Friend, World, Top Of The World

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard M. Nixon
Truth, Lying, Honor
Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

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

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Issues, Never Forget

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon
Fun, Men, Political

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Richard M. Nixon
Exercise, Government, President
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.185, Best Books on

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

Richard M. Nixon
Exercise, Government, Play
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on