Richard M. Nixon

“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”

“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.”

“If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.”

“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.”

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

“It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.”

“If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.”

“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.”

“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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”

“I am not a crook.”

“The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.”

“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”

“Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.”

“Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.”

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