Pat Nixon Quotes

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

Where he [her husband John Adams] is wounded, I bleed.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I'm very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.

Obviously, my wife is very important, very important because in all this time she never watched me with that look that means 'I am sorry,' or that means 'poor you.'

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness.

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

I always want to listen with an open mind.

I turn to my wife for everything. Her success has never affected her as a person - she's incredibly loyal. We laugh together; we share everything, and she still surprises me. When I saw her in 'Sweet Charity,' I was so proud to say, 'That's my wife.'

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

If I have any talent, I think I have an ability to listen to people and also just meet them on their level.

Building my family and my business in Jasper has taught me so much in my life, and one of those lessons is to always put people first.

Love means being kind to each other.

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.