Nixon Quotes

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

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

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.

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

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

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

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.

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

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

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.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.