Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

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] 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

One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects.…

— James M Strock

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier

— George Smathers

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

— Harry Shearer

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

— Gore Vidal

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

— Robert Dallek

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party…

— John Fugelsang

“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

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

— Earl Butz

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

— Barry Goldwater