Bill Quote by Jake Tapper

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

— Harry Shearer

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Of the trials that Eisenhower encountered in politics, McCarthy’s behavior was the most difficult to abide. In his private correspondence, Eisenhower repeatedly conveyed his…

— John A. Farrell

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John]…

— Nat Hentoff

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

If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future…

— Noam Chomsky

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of…

— Harry Shearer

[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet,…

— Nat Hentoff

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

— Richard M. Nixon

“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

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would…

— Lenny Bruce

“There are a dozen books about McCarthy. Yet there is no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to him…

— David McCullough