Nixon Quotes - page 6

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything. (Dylan McDermott)
I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier. View quote
George Smathers
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon. View quote
George Smathers
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. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
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. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. View quote
John Ehrlichman
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. View quote
John Podhoretz
Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him. View quote
John Podhoretz
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. View quote
John Podhoretz
I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country. View quote
Leonard Woodcock
He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners. (Lyn Nofziger)
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. View quote
Norman Lear
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. View quote
Richard Schiff
Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972. View quote
Rick Perlstein
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. View quote
Robert D. Kaplan
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. View quote
Solomon Burke
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. View quote
Sally Quinn
Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good. View quote
Stewart Udall
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on. View quote
Stewart Udall
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened. (Walter Annenberg)
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. View quote
Wavy Gravy
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater. View quote
Earl Butz
[President Nixon], in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power. View quote
Carl Rowan
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. View quote
Charles Krauthammer