Quote by Patrick J. Buchanan

“What? -- RICHARD M NIXON”

— Thomas Pynchon

“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

“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

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

— Richard M. Nixon

“He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You’ll…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.”

— Adlai Stevenson

“Nixon quickly laid Golda’s fears to rest. Despite reams of memoranda from his staff warning him not to succumb to the Israeli prime minister’s…

— Elinor Burkett

“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

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

[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

“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Understanding clearly that what they were doing was illegal, Nixon and Kissinger did it anyway.”

— Gary J. Bass