Nixon Quotes · Page 2

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

— Art Buchwald

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

— Earl Butz

I master the trick just like Nixon.

— Ghostface Killah

I can't believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him.

— Pauline Kael

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

— Jeane Dixon

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

— John Pilger

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

“Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.

— Richard Painter

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as…

— Harry Shearer

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved…

— George Jung

“What the hell are we supposed to do!” Nixon exploded in exasperation. “Paint our asses white and run with the antelopes!”

— Patrick J. Buchanan

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of…

— Golda Meir

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their…

— Earl Warren

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but…

— Charles Krauthammer

Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going…

— Ron Howard

I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president…

— Richard Painter

“Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some…

— Jacob M. Appel

The roots of Nixon's political descent lay at least as far back as May 1970, when the shooting of four young Americans…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the…

— Monica Crowley

Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Stevenson and Sparkman were candidates for august offices, Nixon said. They needed to “come before the American people as I have and…

— John A. Farrell

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam…

— Pat Buchanan

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed…

— Ruzwana Bashir

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back…

— Jeff Greenfield

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a…

— Shane Smith

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85…

— Harry Shearer

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The…

— Mark Bowden

“It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of…

— Ben Fountain

“Throughout the most trying phase of the Case, Nixon and his family, and sometimes his parents, were at our farm, encouraging me…

— Whittaker Chambers

“he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.”

— Michael Wolff

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

“The War on Drugs will go down in history as the most racist crusade since slavery.”

— Thor Benson

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion…

— Roger Ailes

In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

— John Kenneth Galbraith