Conceit Quote by Harry Shearer

I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when…

— Harry Shearer

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

— Douglas McGrath

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man…

— Pierre Trudeau

I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.

— David Mandel

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

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he…

— Oliver Stone

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the…

— Harry Shearer

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

— Johnny Carson

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny -…

— Monica Crowley

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

— Walter Annenberg

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president…

— Robert Dallek

I remember, as a kid, nothing struck me funnier than seeing Richard Nixon look into the camera and sincerely tell everyone he didn't know…

— Martin Short