Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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

“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”

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

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

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if y...”

“If I had feelings, I probably wouldnt have even survived.”

“only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home”

“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”

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

“The press is the enemy.”

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

“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.”

“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 ...”

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

“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 thing...”

“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.”

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

“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.”