3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon People react to fear, not love they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon 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.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
