Richard M. Nixon

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn__ have even survived.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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

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.

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.

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

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

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.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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.