Nixon Quotes

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

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

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.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

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

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

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.

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

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

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

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