Quotes About Richard Nixon

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed, that the president himself would be killed by it.

I brought myself down.  I gave them a sword.  And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.  Not taking a higher road than my predecessors and my adversaries was my central mistake.

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He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation.

I would have made a good Pope.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.