Nixon Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nixon probably was a nice guy.