“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam Wa...” — Richard M. Nixon Quote

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

“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”

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

“The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.”

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

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

“More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.”

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

“The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.”

“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”

“Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.”