Best Nixon Proverbs
236 Nixon quotes by 151 unique authors
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Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of…
— Karen DeCrow
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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in…
— Rick Perlstein
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My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan…
— Rick Perlstein
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The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As…
— Shane Smith
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My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very…
— Peter Dinklage
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Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November,…
— Thomas Mallon
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The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training…
— Fred F. Fielding
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Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
— Arthur Bremer
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I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that…
— Don Novello
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That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
— Solomon Burke
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My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe,…
— Tommy Rettig
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head…
— Bob Woodward
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
— Earl Butz
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More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and…
— Raul Grijalva
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The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
— Dexter Scott King
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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
— Roger Stone
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When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
— Grover Norquist
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Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them…
— Dylan McDermott
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I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America.…
— Richard Schiff
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I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
— Gerald R. Ford
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he…
— Harry S. Truman
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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. (on…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
— Barry Goldwater
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