Quotes of: Nixon Keyword

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

Charles Krauthammer

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Stephen Ambrose

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

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

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

Mikko Hypponen

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

Bob Woodward

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

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Bob Gunton

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

Helen Thomas

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Harry S Truman

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Ken Kesey

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

Karl Rove

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

Muhammad Ali

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Morley Safer

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

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Bob Woodward

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

Tommy Rettig

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.

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