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During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner. -- Jeane Dixon
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. -- Rick Perlstein
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh. -- Bruce Vilanch
I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. -- Charles Colson
Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit. -- Tim Kaine
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? -- Joseph Heller
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. -- Abbie Hoffman
I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon. -- Gerald R. Ford
It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word. -- William Zinsser
You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout. -- Allen West
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) -- Paul Harvey
It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. -- Arthur Bremer
Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. -- Karl Rove
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. -- David Cameron
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia. -- Ralph Nader
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. -- Lyn Nofziger
Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette. -- Gerald R. Ford
[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it. -- Rush Limbaugh
[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it. -- Rush Limbaugh
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. -- Pierre Salinger
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. -- Dexter Scott King
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? -- Johnny Carson
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. -- John F. Kennedy
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. -- John Podhoretz
Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. -- Arthur Bremer
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal. -- Hunter S. Thompson
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. -- Susan Estrich
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. -- Robert Dallek
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
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. -- Robert Dallek
We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. -- Louie Gohmert
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. -- Tony Campolo
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was. -- Roger Ailes
I don't use Richard Nixon as necessarily the guide, OK. I mean, you know, it's an interesting person to use, but don't use it. -- Donald Trump
Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. -- Noam Chomsky
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
I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen. -- Newt Gingrich
Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles. -- Frank Luntz
[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor. -- Indira Gandhi
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. -- Archibald Cox
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? -- Hunter S. Thompson
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. -- Wavy Gravy
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. -- Jill Stein
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, -- Molly Ivins
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
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Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election. -- Tim Kaine
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream. -- Hunter S. Thompson
[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, -- David Frum
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. -- Wesley Clark
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I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl. -- Bruce Cockburn
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. -- John N. Mitchell
Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president. -- Ronald Kessler
When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide. -- Evan Osnos
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.' -- Bruce Cockburn
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. -- Jeff Greenfield
Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992. -- Chuck Todd
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story. -- Rick Perlstein
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. -- Joe Klein
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools. -- Denis Hayes
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
There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins. -- Joe Klein
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon. -- Pat Paulsen
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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
Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon. -- John Roecker
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. -- Robert Dallek
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
Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides. -- Rick Perlstein
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
Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible. -- Frank Luntz
The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court. -- Jill Stein
I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India. -- Indira Gandhi
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. -- Harry S Truman
Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk. -- Harry Shearer
I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him. -- Pete Rose
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. -- Ben Shapiro
I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. -- Barack Obama
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people. -- William S. Burroughs
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it. -- Edward Snowden
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon, -- Hunter S. Thompson
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. -- Paul Begala
More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam. -- Raul Grijalva
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero. -- Thomas Frank
Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. -- Mike Wallace
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. -- Bayard Rustin
On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon. -- Debi Mazar
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. -- Robert Dallek
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968. -- Ann Coulter
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? -- Rebecca Goldstein
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. -- Jeff Greenfield
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people. -- Laraine Day
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me. -- Jimmy Carter
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead. -- Richard Schiff
Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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. -- David Mandel
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth. -- Benazir Bhutto
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

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