Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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

"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."

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

"The press is the enemy."

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

"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."

"Voters quickly forget what a man says."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."

"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."

"The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer."