Learning Quote by Gary J. Bass

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon…

— Bob Woodward

“The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which permitted the Watergate scandal.”

— Claude Julien

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

— Bill Maher

“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.”

— Rick Perlstein

“Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about,” Nixon replied.”

— John A. Farrell

Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would…

— Mort Sahl

“They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.”

— Bill Bryson

“To this day it's hard to believe that a politician as smart as Dick Nixon could have allowed something that stupid to happen. He…

— Herman E. Talmadge

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

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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