Communication Quote by Adlai Stevenson

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on 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'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 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 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

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

“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

“Yet few came so far, so fast, so alone, as Nixon. Not the governor of California or his aides, nor any member of the…

— John A. Farrell

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

— Hunter S. Thompson