Best Nixon Lines
236 Nixon quotes by 151 unique authors
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For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
— John Podhoretz
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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what,…
— John Podhoretz
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Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's…
— John Podhoretz
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The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something…
— Robert Redford
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
— Karl Rove
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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
— Mort Sahl
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If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp…
— Arlen Specter
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we…
— Helen Thomas
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We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.
— Helen Thomas
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I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the…
— Helen Thomas
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Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White…
— Helen Thomas
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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts;…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth…
— Harry S. Truman
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You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as…
— Harry S. Truman
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon…
— Earl Warren
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the…
— Earl Warren
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