Enemy Quote by Bob Woodward

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

“Understanding clearly that what they were doing was illegal, Nixon and Kissinger did it anyway.”

— Gary J. Bass

Nixon clearly broke laws. He clearly believed he needed to stay in power to protect the country. But he recognized that he was breaking…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in…

— Thomas Mallon

“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the United States,…

— Radley Balko

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Golda Meir

Richard Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys,…

— Seymour Hersh

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he…

— Harry Shearer

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy