Richard Nixon Quotes

No politician has ever been defeated by a speech he didn’t give.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

People [in politics] do go on and talk.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

I talked to the rest of the nation for about ten minutes about what Lyndon Johnson was doing for the people of the Northeast. In truth, I thought I was laying it on a bit thickly. But when I returned and spoke with the President, he mentioned several points I could have added. I learned that it was simply not possible to lay it on too thickly for him (or most other politicians).

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

A good politicians knows his friends and a good politician knows his enemies.

History is one of those things that politicians tend not to use.

Political speeches are a particularly low form of rhetoric.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.