Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. ... -Richard M. Nixon

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

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

I let the American people down.

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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I g... -Richard M. Nixon

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

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty... -Richard M. Nixon

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

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The quote conveys the speaker's refusal to accept the pessimistic belief that politics is inherently corrupt or morally compromised, expressing a more positive outlook on the subject.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 greatest honor history can bestow is that of p... -Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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This quote asserts that being recognized as a peacemaker is the highest honor one can receive from history. It implies a belief in the moral and ethical value of promoting peace, resolving conflicts, and fostering harmony among individuals, communities, and nations as a noble and revered pursuit.

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

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach t... -Richard M. Nixon

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

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.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play... -Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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

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.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a ... -Richard M. Nixon

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. ... -Richard M. Nixon

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.

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

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.

The press is the enemy.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image... -Richard M. Nixon

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

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The quote reflects a strategic approach to politics, indicating the importance of projecting a winning image and achieving victory by outperforming or defeating opponents.

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

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

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