Richard M. Nixon

People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

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

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

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.

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

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

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

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.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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