Collector Quote by Rick Perlstein

“Nixon has been the subject of more psychobiographies than any other politician. His career vindicates one of that maligned genre's most trustworthy findings: the…

— Rick Perlstein

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since…

— Rick Perlstein

“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.”

— Rick Perlstein

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald…

— Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people,…

— Rick Perlstein

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after…

— David Frum

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry A. Kissinger

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

— John Podhoretz

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual…

— Pat Paulsen

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

— Hunter S. Thompson

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

— Benazir Bhutto

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

— Robert Dallek

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

— Harry Shearer

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart…

— Hunter S. Thompson