#is

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#risks #suffer #take #victories #will

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#great #history #into #once #out

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#government #honest men #local #local government #men

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#blanks #ever #happens #i #know

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#any #change #control #destiny #direction

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conduct #hair #his #length #person

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conversations #decision #done #historical #i

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american people #directly #entitled #hear #him

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. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american #american people #difficult #ends #few

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#gets #oblivion #olympics #politics #second