Richard M. Nixon
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.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Anger
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.Collection: Men
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.Collection: Government
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Collection: History
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Government
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Freedom
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Patriotism
I let the American people down.Collection: History
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.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: History
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.Collection: Chance
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.Collection: Fear
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: War
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Best
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.Collection: Sports
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.Collection: History
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.Collection: Change
Voters quickly forget what a man says.Collection: Government
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Government
I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.Collection: Cool
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.Collection: Anger
The press is the enemy.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: History
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.Collection: Sympathy
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.Collection: History
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
I am not a crook.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.