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.

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

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I let the American people down.

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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.

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.

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.

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

The press is the enemy.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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.

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.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I was born in the house my father built.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.