Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

“We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.”

“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.”

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

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”

“Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.”

“A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.”

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

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

“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 think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?”

“The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.”

“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.”

“Youve got to learn to survive a defeat. Thats when you develop character.”

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives”

“My strong point is not rhetoric, it isnt showmanship, it isnt big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.”

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

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

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