76 Quotes on Nixon

• I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• It was accountability that Nixon feared.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Author: Theodore White

• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  Author: Earl Warren

• The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

  Author: Earl Warren

• What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

  Author: Bruce Vilanch

• Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

  Author: Harry Truman

• You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

  Author: Hunter Thompson

• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

  Author: George Smathers

• Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

  Author: George Smathers

• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Author: Mort Sahl

• In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

  Author: Morley Safer

• My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

  Author: John Pomfret

• Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

  Author: Ron Paul

• There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

  Author: Pat Oliphant

• Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

  Author: Don Novello

• I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

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

  Author: Richard Nixon

• In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

  Author: John Mitchell

• As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

  Author: Golda Meir

• Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

  Author: Norman Lear

• The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

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

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

  Author: Dexter King

• I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

  Author: Ken Kesey

• Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

  Author: John Kennedy

• 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 take it.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

  Author: David Halberstam

• More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  Author: Wavy Gravy

• I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  Author: Fred Fielding

• The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

  Author: Fred Fielding

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

  Author: Daniel Ellsberg

• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

  Author: William Douglas

• During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

  Author: Jeane Dixon

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

• I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

  Author: Bette Davis

• Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

  Author: Archibald Cox

• I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

  Author: Charles Colson

• I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

  Author: Wesley Clark

• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

  Author: Dick Cavett

• I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  Author: Earl Butz

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  Author: Earl Butz

• That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

  Author: Solomon Burke

• I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

  Author: Paul Begala

• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  Author: Walter Annenberg

• I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

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