Army Quote by Joe Biden

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.

— Senator John Kerry

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles…

— Milton Friedman

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

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

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he…

— Harry Shearer

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

— Bob Gunton

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

— Golda Meir

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

— Bill Ayers

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

— Henry A. Kissinger