Nixon Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year…

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Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football…

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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he'sa bummer…

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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke…

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“The prevailing quality of life in America -- by any accepted methods of measuring -- was unarguably freer and more politically open…

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Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned…

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Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still…

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[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being…

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George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country…

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“McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of…

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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my…

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“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to…

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“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage…

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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism—which is true, but they miss the point.…

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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that…

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“Consciousness Expansion” went out with LBJ … and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the…

— Hunter S. Thompson