Communication Quote by Adlai Stevenson

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

— Adlai Stevenson

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

— Adlai Stevenson

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

— Eugene McCarthy

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

— Harry Shearer

Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would…

— Mort Sahl

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

— Bill Ayers

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

— Noam Chomsky

“A road trip with Richard Nixon would seem like gum surgery on wheels. But Hunter S. Thompson actually went on a road trip with…

— P.J. O'Rourke

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he…

— Oliver Stone