Punch line Quote by Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

“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

“he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.”

— Michael Wolff

“The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.”

— Ann Whitman

“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

— Harry Shearer

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour.”

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“Nixon was finding enemies everywhere: among liberals, the bureaucracy, on Capitol Hill, and in the press. “We can have peace. We can have prosperity.…

— John A. Farrell

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he'sa bummer to have…

— Hunter S. Thompson