Quotes About Nixon

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

The Watergate is a hotel in Washington where Nixon operatives broke in to steal campaign information from the Democratic Party. Nixon's people subsequently described that act as a 'third-rate burglary.' In the same manner, Clinton has described the FBI investigation of her email escapades as 'a security review.'

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

Some of the things I have written about are a way of connecting with my father - I know he knew who Idi Amin was, and I know he knew who Longford was. And I know he knew who Nixon was, because shortly before he died, I talked to him about Watergate.

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.

That's what made it worse, in the end ... when he found out. Nixon had lied to him, personally.

Even a year later, Bush remarked to a friend, with uncharacteristic bluntness: "I wouldn't care if I never see Richard Nixon again.

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

presidente más que Nixon podría haber sido tan arrogante y estúpido.

Nixon. Era un hombre sin dignidad. Cada vez más gente veía que era un farsante, pero él, lejos de dimitir, se aferraba a la Casa Blanca soltando bravatas, ofuscando, amenazando y mintiendo, mintiendo y mintiendo.

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

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

No need to shoot the breeze with Nixon when the surf was so great

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

Did you know there's a place under the stairs in the East Wing that's full of spiders that died during the Nixon administration? Do you think that's true? I don't think that's true," she said without really waiting for Charlie to answer. "I could ask Dad," Maddie went on. "But he didn't work here then. At least I don't think he worked here then. I mean, I know he's old. Like, really, really old. But is he that old?

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

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

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

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