Top 1200 Richard Nixon Quotes & Sayings

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

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

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

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

Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.

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

Larry Hogan Sr. was the first Republican to break with President Richard Nixon during his impeachment hearings, weakening not only the GOP firewall of support for the embattled president, but also Nixon's own defiance.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it.

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

Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to - Richard Nixon!

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

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.

In Democrats minds they've done it before. They got rid of Richard Nixon and they rendered George W. Bush irrelevant. They think they can do it. The thing that they don't understand is Donald Trump is not Nixon, and he is not George W. Bush. And he is not a traditional politician affected by these kinds of assaults the way most politicians are.

Richard Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.

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.

Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen intellect and work ethic.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

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

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

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

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

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

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects. To be sure, each ended in failure. Nonetheless, Johnson's accomplishments in civil rights and immigration legislation, and Nixon's in respect to relations with China, may loom larger with the passage of time.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

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

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

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

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

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.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.

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

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

Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

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

You look forward. You don't go punitive. It's very small-minded to do that. There's campaign rhetoric, and then there's stuff that you actually do," and you're thinking, Snerdley, "He was never gonna prosecute her, just like they didn't prosecute [Richard] Nixon. If anybody was ever gonna prosecute anybody, it would be the Democrats prosecuting Nixon."

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

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

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.