Enemy Quote by Lawrence M. Krauss

“His game-theory-based approach was, in certain respects, merely an extension of Eisenhower’s nuclear diplomacy—trying to raise uncertainty in the Soviet mind about whether he’d…

— Garrett M. Graff

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

— Noam Chomsky

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political…

— Allard K. Lowenstein

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and…

— John Podhoretz

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

— Daniel Ellsberg

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

— Steve Kornacki

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the…

— Geraldine Ferraro

“the president’s views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.”

— Michael Wolff