Quote by David Edison

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

“It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour.”

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“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

“Nixon knew that in 1960 the American people were unlikely to elect a man who was “seeing a shrink.” Although the advances in our…

— Mike Colapietro Roger Stone

“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

“By the tie I arrived at the clinic I was typically so demoralized I could barely stand. I was twenty-three years old and I…

— Daniel B. Smith

“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

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

— Rick Perlstein

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Rick Perlstein

“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I brought out the dark side of Nixon,” Colson recalled, though “you didn’t need to work very hard to bring it out—it was always…

— John A. Farrell