Richard M Nixon quotes

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The press is the enemy.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I let the American people down.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.