Top 569 Nixon Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

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

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

There are similiarities between Nixon and Trump, no question. But there are also big differences. Nixon was shy, private, he attacked the media behind closed doors and insulted people behind their backs, and we only know about it because of the taping system in the Oval Office. The dark side, the vengeance we only know because of these tapes. Trump is right out and front with it. He actually campaigned on how nasty he can be, which found resonance with enough voters to get him into the White House.

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

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

You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.

Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

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

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

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

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

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.

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

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

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

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

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

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

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

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

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

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

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

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

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

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

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

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

I'm proud to be associated with the public policies of Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

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

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

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

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