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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. - [Quitting] I can see clearly now . . . that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. . . . - [Watergate] I would have made a good Pope. - [Pope] 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-- I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examiniation, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got. - [Watergate] People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. - [Crooks : Nixon, Richard] So tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support. - [Elections] There is no doubt that Krushchev would have been a superb poker player. First, he is out to win. Second, like any good poker player, he plans ahead so that he can win the big pots. He likes to bluff, but he knows that if you bluff on the small pots and fail consistently to produce the cards, you must expect your opponent to call your bluff on the big pots. - [Gambling] When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. - [Legality] I was born in the house my father built. - RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon [Books (First Lines)]
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