Richard Nixon Quotes

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment.

Some people are tired of hearing me tweet because they want me to stick to football but I like to use social media like I was a regular guy because I think I am.

Politicians should be judged on their actions, rather than necessarily their views on scripture.

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

A public man should have no resentments.

I know but one code of morality for man whether acting singly or collectively. He who says I will be a rogue when I act in company with a hundred others, but an honest man when I act alone, will be believed in the former assertion, but not in the latter.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

One cannot think of him [Theodore Roosevelt] except as part of the public scheme, performing on the public stage.

My polls have been up and down a lot. If I were interested in polling, I would not have run for President. I was polling at over 70 percent when I was in the U. S. Senate. I took this job to deliver for the American people.

Whenever I had to make a difficult decision as a Congressman, I thoud think about the average citisen in my Congressional districr and how he would advise me if he knew everythign I knew about the issue.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.