Basket Case Quote by James T. Patterson

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could…

— Robert Dallek

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

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

— Robert Dallek

“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 did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious…

— Robert Dallek

Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in…

— Murray Rothbard

“To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk remembers that…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“In February, Nixon, his way paved by secret journeys that Kissinger took in 1971 to Peking, made a lavishly televised week-long visit to the…

— James T. Patterson

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

— John Pilger

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Earl Butz

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

— Christopher Hitchens