Cable Quote by Douglas McGrath

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

— Norman Lear

“Under Ailes’s sharp tutelage, Nixon was able to skillfully leverage television to trick the American public into believing he was a halfway reasonable human…

— Joe Muto

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

— Walter Annenberg

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us.…

— Harry Shearer

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

— Earl Butz

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry A. Kissinger

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was.…

— Oliver Stone

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

— Peter Morgan

I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“And old Cronkite had two thoughts about this. First, anyone who thinks television can bring the nation together to have a real dialogue and…

— Nathan Hill

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

— Gore Vidal

I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which I thought…

— A.M. Homes