"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."
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"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."
Richard M. Nixon"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."
Richard M. Nixon"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon"The press is the enemy."
Richard M. Nixon"People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."
Richard M. Nixon"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."
Richard M. Nixon"Voters quickly forget what a man says."
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."
Richard M. Nixon"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
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."
Richard M. Nixon"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
Richard M. Nixon"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
Richard M. Nixon"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
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."
Richard M. Nixon"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
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."
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."
Richard M. Nixon"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
Richard M. Nixon