Quotes About Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.

Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

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

Votes for president have long been a kind of social signifier. People will proudly boast that they voted for JFK; while it's harder to find those eager to claim having supported Richard Nixon.

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

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

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.

Aunque sea deprimente pensar que la firma de Richard Nixon está en la luna, el hecho de que realmente haya una carita sonriente en Marte es extrañamente alentador.

The time King spent at Tattnall Prison would change political history. It was the fall of 1960 and John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were locked in a tight battle for the presidency.

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February?

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

Johnson, taking over after Kennedy was murdered and after the Kennedy patched-up advisory commitment had failed, vowed that he was not going to be the President of the United States who lost the Great Society because he lost Saigon. In the end it would take the tragedy of the Vietnam War and the election of Richard Nixon (the only political figure who could probably go to China without being Red-baited by Richard Nixon) to exorcise those demons, and to open the door to China.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)