“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
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Famous Richard M. Nixon Quotes
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
“Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.”
“I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.”
“You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.”
“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972
“Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.”
“Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”
“My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.”
“Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.”
“Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.”
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974