Character Quote by Ann Whitman

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

— Bill Ayers

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right,…

— Oliver Stone

“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

“Presidents, even when they get some things right, never cease to be punch lines, and it was telling that Nixon regarded his comic potential…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

— Rick Perlstein

“He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.”

— Rick Perlstein

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

— Harry Shearer

“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.”

— Rick Perlstein

“To this day it's hard to believe that a politician as smart as Dick Nixon could have allowed something that stupid to happen. He…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You’ll…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson