Apology Quote by Stephen Ambrose

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result,…

— Samuel Dash

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

— Earl Butz

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

— Roger Stone

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was.…

— Oliver Stone

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear…

— Hunter S. Thompson

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily,…

— Bob Woodward

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in…

— Thomas Mallon

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

— Rick Perlstein

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little,…

— Noam Chomsky

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier

— George Smathers