Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

  Richard M. Nixon

  Responsibility, Three, Speak

• Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

• The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Responsibility, Average

  Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (p. 1), November 9, 1972.

• They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Responsibility, Government, Media

• Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Strong, Responsibility

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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