President Nixon Quotes

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.