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.

Quote by Richard M Nixon

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways to...

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways to...

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an...

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an...

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that...

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that...

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't...

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't...

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a...

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a...

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which...

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which...

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man...

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man...

Solutions are not the answer.

Solutions are not the answer.

In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will...

In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will...

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press...

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press...

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

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

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than...

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of...

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of...

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

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

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in...

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for...

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for...

War is fear cloaked in courage.

War is fear cloaked in courage.