Top 100 Quotes About Nixon
#1. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. Thompson
#3. If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
#4. 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.
Barry Goldwater
#5. The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. Nixon
#6. 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.
Sally Quinn
#7. [On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.
Pat Nixon
#8. You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.
Carl Andre
#9. Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.
Jerry Brown
#10. My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.
Katie Nolan
#11. He was arguably the best-qualified FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover; he thought Clinton was the most talented politician since Richard Nixon. That made their mutual contempt all the more tragic. It undermined the FBI and ultimately damaged the United States.
Tim Weiner
#13. When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#14. I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
Richard M. Nixon
#16. 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.
Ron Paul
#17. It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."
Richard M. Nixon
#18. The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.
Richard M. Nixon
#20. Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.
Cynthia Nixon
#21. The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
Richard M. Nixon
#24. You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
Allen West
#25. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
#26. I want to inspire people to be better, to do better, to dance better, and I want to help to grow this next generation. That's something that's really, really important to me, and I just want to be freaking good at everything I do.
Vivian Nixon
#27. It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon
#28. 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.
Bob Woodward
#29. Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.
John Dean
#30. In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon
#31. I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
Cynthia Nixon
#32. We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.
Helen Thomas
#33. Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
Karen DeCrow
#35. Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
Douglas Brinkley
#36. I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
Pauline Kael
#37. Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.
Joan Lowery Nixon
#40. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.
Rick Perlstein
#41. 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.
Angus King
#42. Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon
#43. Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
Conrad Black
#44. Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of
criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of
decision. Faced with a clear challenge, the decision not to use
one's power must be as deliberate as the decision to use it. The con
Richard M. Nixon
#45. Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.
Monica Crowley
#46. Skylar Nixon could be the one woman who was strong enough, sweet enough, forgiving enough to be with me. The thought was both terrifying and beautiful.
Melanie Harlow
#47. I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
Cynthia Nixon
#48. My mother has battled breast cancer three times.
Cynthia Nixon
#49. Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
Richard M. Nixon
#50. So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
Richard M. Nixon
#51. 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.
Earl Warren
#52. Later I learned to improve my forecasting - if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon. In
Henry Kissinger
#53. For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend.
Jay Nixon
#54. Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
Richard M. Nixon
#55. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,
Richard M. Nixon
#56. A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Richard M. Nixon
#57. When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.
Jackie Robinson
#58. 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.
Fred F. Fielding
#59. You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard M. Nixon
#60. Motivation is not a lasting thing you can simply give to others unless they want it. Neither can I or anyone else give it to you unless you want it.
Robin Nixon
#61. 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.
Bob Woodward
#62. Nixon finding areas of agreement with his Democratic adviser, as when Pat writes to him, "I do not know, but strongly suspect, that especially to working-class America, the misbehavior of [college] students is seen as a form of class privilege. Which it is.
Stephen Hess
#63. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.
Richard M. Nixon
#64. Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
Johnny Carson
#65. We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.
Dave Barry
#66. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1
J.D. Nixon
#67. All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#68. I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.
Cynthia Nixon
#69. When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
Grover Norquist
#70. When we are covering our service member by the shield of prayer, we are engaging God's defense system of protection.
Lisa Nixon Phillips
#71. Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#72. I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.
Richard M. Nixon
#73. I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
Kimberley Nixon
#74. One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.
Rex Stout
#77. While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#78. You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.
Richard M. Nixon
#79. Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.
Conan O'Brien
#81. To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.
Richard M. Nixon
#82. Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.
Chris Rock
#83. I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.
Nicholas Nixon
#84. I feel like I got a good jump on the ball. I turned my head and picked a spot out to run to. I was able to look back at the ball real quick again and it fell right into my glove.
Trot Nixon
#85. I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!
Cynthia Nixon
#86. Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
Cynthia Nixon
#87. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon
#88. I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.
Mojo Nixon
#89. My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Cynthia Nixon
#91. Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.
Richard M. Nixon
#92. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
#93. Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.
Scott Shane
#94. In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
Morley Safer
#95. People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon
#98. The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.
Richard M. Nixon
#99. The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.
Richard M. Nixon
#100. If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.
Kimberley Nixon
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