Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

"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."

"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

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

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

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

"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible."

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

"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."

"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."

"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."

"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."