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

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

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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.

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

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

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

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Solutions are not the answer.

The press is the enemy.

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

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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

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

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.