Richard Nixon — "The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."

"I don't think you can be a great President unless you have a certain ruthlessness."

"The Irish can't drink. What you have to do is to get them to piss. The Italians can drink, the Jews can drink, but the Irish can't drink."

"It is because I believe so deeply in the American system, because I believe so strongly in the American people, that I have decided to take the action which I shall now announce."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ar…"

"The true strength of a nation lies not in its armies or its wealth, but in the character of its people."