Richard M. Nixon

Quotes

• “The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more result...”
• “The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you ...”
• “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....”
• “Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that American...”
• “We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way w...”
• “What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and s...”
• “You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good lose...”
• “Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those ...”
• “only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a gre...”
• “We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because o...”
• “Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. Th...”
• “You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I...”
• “The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, sche...”
• “We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse a...”
• “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembere...”
• “In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak ...”
• “I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
• “Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
• “Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
• “Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
• “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
• “It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
• “I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.”
• “When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.”
• “I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”
• “The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
• “If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.”
• “I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
• “The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
• “I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
• “To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”
• “I was born in the house my father built.”
• “Voters quickly forget what a man says.”
• “I let the American people down.”
• “The press is the enemy.”