Richard nixon Quotes

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word

— William Zinsser

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

— Rick Perlstein

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

— Gerald R. Ford

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

— Steve Kornacki

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

— Art Buchwald

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

— Jeane Dixon

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

— David Cameron

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

— Fabrizio Moreira

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

— John Podhoretz

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

— Robert Dallek

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns…

— Indira Gandhi

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

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress…

— Angus King

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply…

— Robert Dallek

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really…

— Rick Perlstein

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain…

— Tim Kaine

Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out…

— Frank Luntz

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even…

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Monica Crowley

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to…

— Jonathan Turley

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first…

— Marguerite Rawalt

“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

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

— Harry Shearer

“I’ve spent enough time in jackrabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives . . . No wonder…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian…

— Noam Chomsky

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become…

— Christopher Hitchens

Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

— Gerald R Ford

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Roger Ailes

I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw…

— David Mandel

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

Rather than Barack Obama borrowing from Mitt Romney, both Romney and Obama borrowed from Richard Nixon.

— Stuart Altman

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of…

— Tony Campolo

“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for…

— Adlai Stevenson

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal — fish gotta…

— Molly Ivins

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell…

— Benazir Bhutto

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall