Nixon Quotes

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

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

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.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

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

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.