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

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Richard M. Nixon

I let the American people down.

— Richard M. Nixon

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.

— Richard M. Nixon

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Richard M. Nixon

I was born in the house my father built.

— Richard M. Nixon

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.

— Richard M. Nixon