Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe read more

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President read more

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

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

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